The Uses and Abuses of British Political Fiction or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Malcolm Tucker
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6309317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mary Bailey (0000-0001-9862-7343, University of Nottingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-295 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Parliamentary Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-2290 • E-ISSN: 1460-2482 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pa/gsq058 |
| OpenAlex | W2112909014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
Since Plato the arts have worried those concerned with the maintenance and stability of the polis. More recently politicians and commentators have expressed fears that the manner in which formal politics is depicted in fiction has been a contributory factor in the breakdown of trust in British political culture. By comparison the USA is pointed to as offering a far more positive tradition of cultural representations of politics and politicians. This article seeks to assess such claims arguing that neither tradition—British or American—can be so easily characterised. It goes on to argue for the importance of taking the fictional representation of politics seriously not only for its worth as a contemporary record of attitudes and assumptions about British political culture but also its ability to reveal and consider aspects of political activity that traditional methods might find difficult to measure and record
Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2024 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |