Bryan M. Santin

Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism (eBook, ePUB)

A Literary History, 1945-2008

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108974233
• Artikelnr.: 62747576

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.