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Catherine Zuckert on Politics and Literature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 April 2018

Abstract

Catherine Zuckert's earliest published work was in the area of Politics and Literature. From the start she saw this work as an important supplement to the dominant forms of political science and American political thought. Her work in this area, especially her manifesto-like journal articles and her first book, Natural Right and the American Imagination, made the case that literature provides insight into both the internal and hidden lives of democratic citizens as well as into the elusive broader regime-character of the political community.

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Research Article
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2018 

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References

1 Zuckert, Catherine H., Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form (Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1990), 2Google Scholar.

2 Zuckert, Catherine, “On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers,” Journal of Politics 43, no. 3 (1981): 683–84CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Zuckert, Natural Right and the American Imagination, 244.

4 A thorough discussion of how one should combine both a political and a literary reading can be found in her essay in JOP.

5 Zuckert, Catherine, “Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature,” PS: Political Science and Politics 28, no. 2 (1995): 189Google Scholar.

6 Zuckert, “On Reading Classic American Novelists,” 688.

7 Zuckert, Natural Right and the American Imagination, 207.