Critical Insights: Conspiracies
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Description
From the publisher's website:
"This volume explores touchstone moments in conspiracy fiction -- in film as well as in classic and popular works -- and delves into the socio-political aspects of conspiracies while examining them at the heart of some of the most beloved canonical literature in English.
Widespread or limited, motivated by individual benefit or public betterment, conspiracies -- and the secrecy, plotting, and unlawfulness that accompany them -- have played a prominent role in human interaction and are featured in literature from the Bible to Shakespeare to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code.
This volume, like all others in the Critical Insights series, is divided into several sections. It begins with an introductory piece, “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Conspiracy,”—an allusion to the Declaration of Independence—by editor James Plath, which introduces the topic of conspiracies and conspiracy theories within the broader contexts of history, politics, psychology, literature, and American life."
ISBN
978-1-64265-373-1
Publication Date
4-2020
Publisher
Salem Press
City
Amenia, NY
Disciplines
English Language and Literature
Recommended Citation
Plath, James, "Critical Insights: Conspiracies" (2020). IWU Authors Bookshelf. 114.
https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/bookshelf/114