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Not to be confused with Legal fiction

Political fiction is a subgenre of fiction that deals with political affairs.
Political fiction has often used narrative to provide commentary on political
events, systems and theories. Works of political fiction often "directly criticize an
existing society or... present an alternative, sometimes fantastic, reality."[1]
Prominent pieces of political fiction have included the totalitarian dystopias of
the early 20th century such as Jack London's The Iron Heel and Sinclair
Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. Equally influential, if not more so, however, have
been earlier pieces of political fiction such as Gulliver's Travels (1726), Candide
(1759) and Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Political fiction frequently employs the
literary modes of satire, often in the genres of Utopian and dystopian fiction or
social science fiction.

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This is a list of a few of the early or notable examples; others belong on the
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The Republic (ca. 360 BCE) by Plato
Panchatantra (ca. 200 BCE) by Vishnu Sarma
Utopia (1516) by Thomas More

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The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys (1578) by Jan Kochanowski

Don Quixote (1605) by Miguel de Cervantes
Simplicius Simplicissimus (1668) by Hans Jakob Christoffel von
Grimmelshausen
The Pilgrim's Progress (1678) by John Bunyan
Persian Letters (1721) by Montesquieu
Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift
Candide (1759) by Voltaire
The History and Adventures of an Atom (1769) by Tobias Smollett
Fables and Parables (1779) by Ignacy Krasicki
The Return of the Deputy (1790) by Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
The Partisan Leader (1836) by Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
Barnaby Rudge (1841) by Charles Dickens
The Betrothed (1842) by Alessandro Manzoni

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Coningsby (novel) (1844) by Benjamin Disraeli

Sybil, or The Two Nations (1845) by Benjamin Disraeli
Tancred (1847) by Benjamin Disraeli
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Swift

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) by Charles Dickens

Fathers and Sons (1862) by Ivan Turgenev
The Palliser novels (18641879) by Anthony Trollope
War and Peace (1869) by Leo Tolstoy
Demons, also known as The Possessed or The Devils (1872), by Fyodor
Dostoyevsky
The Gilded Age (1876) by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner
Democracy: An American Novel (1880) by Henry Adams
The Princess Casamassima (1886) by Henry James

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The Bostonians (1886) by Henry James

Looking Backward (1888) by Edward Bellamy
Pharaoh (1895) by Bolesaw Prus
Nostromo (1904) by Joseph Conrad
The Jungle (1906) by Upton Sinclair
The Iron Heel (1908) by Jack London
Under Western Eyes (1911) by Joseph Conrad
Niemcewicz

The Trial (1925) by Franz Kafka

The Castle (1926) by Franz Kafka
Brave New World (1932) by Aldous Huxley
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story (1945) by George Orwell
Walden Two (1948) by B. F. Skinner
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) by George Orwell
Dark Green, Bright Red (1950) by Gore Vidal

Dickens

The Quiet American (1955) by Graham Greene

Atlas Shrugged (1957) by Ayn Rand
The Manchurian Candidate (1959) by Richard Condon
The Comedians (1966) by Graham Greene
Cancer Ward (1967) by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Washington, D.C. (1967) by Gore Vidal
Burr (1973) by Gore Vidal
The Chocolate War (1974) by Robert Cormier
Guerrillas (1975) by V. S. Naipaul
1876 (1976) by Gore Vidal

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Vineland (1990) by Thomas Pynchon

Science fiction

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Starship Troopers (1959) by Robert A. Heinlein

The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia (1974) by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Mars trilogy (1990s) by Kim Stanley Robinson

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Politics in fiction

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1. ^ "HIST 294 - Political Fiction

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Foil character Protagonist Supporting character Tritagonist Viewpoint character
Climax Conflict Dnouement Dialogue Dramatic structure Exposition Falling action
Plot device Subplot Trope-Clich

Setting

Dystopia Fictional city Fictional country Fictional location Fictional universe Utopia

Theme

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Diction Figure of speech Imagery Literary technique Narrative mode Stylistic device
Suspension of disbelief Symbolism Tone

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Play Poem Screenplay Short story List of narrative forms

Genre

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Horror Magic realism Mystery Paranoid Philosophical Political Romance Saga Satire
Science Speculative Superhero Thriller Urban

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Subjective) Stream of consciousness The narrative types of the narrator Unreliable

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