Bryan M Santin

Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

A Literary History, 1945-2008

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 621g
• ISBN-13: 9781108832656
• ISBN-10: 1108832652
• Artikelnr.: 60202450

Autorenporträt

Bryan M. Santin obtained his Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. He is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University, Irvine, where he teaches courses in American literature, world literature, and composition.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. US Literature and the Modern Right at Midcentury: Conservative Modernism
Race
and the Cold War
1945-1960; 2. The Conservative Movement's Foundational Fictions: Flannery O'Connor
Ayn Rand
and the Evolving Literary Forms of Conservatism
1950-1964; 3. The Strongbox of Custom: James Baldwin
Norman Mailer
and the Shifting Racial Logic of Postwar Conservatism
1955-1972; 4. Movement Conservatism
Neoconservatism
and the New Right: Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon in the Age of Reagan
1970-1990; 5. The American Novel and the Reagan Revolution: The Ascent of Toni Morrison in the Age of Conservative Pop Fiction
1987-2000; Coda: The Curious (Conservative) Case of Marilynne Robinson.