Harlot’s Anatomy

Authors

  • Alexander Hicks Emory University Author

Keywords:

Harlot’s Ghost, Bildungsroman, espionage fiction, Cold War narrative, CIA and secrecy, masculinity and power, identity and performance

Abstract

Harlot’s Ghost is a variously and intricately structured work. It is manifestly the Bildungsroman and picaresque treatment of the education of Harry Hubbard. Mailer’s orchestration of these varieties of form belies the charge of incoherence and irresolution. With the work’s anatomy and musculature made more evident, a reader is less likely to see length as burdensome or find scenes dull for want of fit and function.

Author Biography

  • Alexander Hicks, Emory University

    Alexander Hicks is Professor of Sociology and adjunct Professor of Political Science and Film and Media Studies at Emory University. He is author or co-author of several books including the prize-winning Social Democracy and Welfare Capitalism; and he is author of numerous papers in leading social science journals, as well as of a few papers in The Mailer Review.

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Published

2026-10-10

Issue

Vol. 8 No. 1 (2014): Future Bound

Section

Articles