“Mitchum Huehls sets himself a difficult challenge in his deeply thoughtful and philosophically astute study … The work is ambitious, but because it is grounded in close attention to textual examples the ideas are lucid and convincing … The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the ends of the postmodern, with form, politics, and the uses of art in the post-postmodern moment.” —Peter Sloane, Modern Language Review
“Huehls captures what’s exciting and unique about recent American fiction and remains clear-sighted despite dealing with difficult concepts in aesthetic theory, deconstructive thinking, and the politics of revolution. Art, Theory, Revolution breaks new ground in how we understand cultural production after postmodernism.” —Daniel Grausam, author of On Endings: American Postmodern Fiction and the Cold War
“With theoretical capaciousness, thematic timeliness, and rhetorical clarity, Art, Theory, Revolution makes a much-needed intervention into ongoing discussions about fictional realism, historical fiction, and political forms. In this way, Huehls promises to enliven debates about how novels possess their own political agency and contribute aesthetically to the making of theory.” —Alexandra Kingston-Reese, author of Contemporary Novelists and the Aesthetics of Twenty-First Century American Life