The Epitome of Evil

1. Introduction
Michael Butter

2. The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Narrative, or The Emergence, Disappearance, and Return of Hitler Fiction, 1939–1968
Michael Butter

3. “Keeping the Monster Alive”: The Cultural Work of Hitler Fiction
Michael Butter

4. Hitler, Nixon, and Vietnam: Self-Critique in Early 1970s Fiction
Michael Butter

5. Children, Clones, Conspiracies: Projection in Late 1970s and Early 1980s Novels
Michael Butter

6. Hitler, Stalin, and bin Laden: External and Internal Othering since the Mid-1980s
Michael Butter

7. Redeeming Hitler? Steve Erickson’s Tours of the Black Clock (1989)
Michael Butter

8. Conclusion
Michael Butter

Nyckelord: Literature, North American Literature, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature, European History, Modern History