![]() ![]() Emeritus Professor Steven Bruhm, Western University This book is required reading not just for Stephen King’s politics, but for the contemporary Gothic altogether.’ ‘At a time when political partisanship has America in lockdown, Blouin argues the persistence of ambivalence in American culture – he conjures our usual demons, and shows us how they refuse to be exorcised. Professor Todd McGowan, University of Vermont, author of Capitalism and Desire: The Psychic Cost of Free Markets This groundbreaking new book shows the possibility for reconceiving the politics of aesthetics through attention to how King’s narratives deploy the variegations of desire.’ ![]() Through Michael Blouin’s perceptive analysis, this ostensibly apolitical fiction becomes the site for a completely unforeseen form of fictional politics that embraces the impossibility of its aims. ‘Stephen King and American Politics provides the key for unlocking the political importance of Stephen King’s fiction. ![]()
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