Postwar American Fiction And The Rise Of Modern Conservatism

Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108832652
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism written by Bryan M. Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.

Author : Bryan M. Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108974236
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism written by Bryan M. Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Stephen Schryer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198886209
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book National Review's Literary Network written by Stephen Schryer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Schryer traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review and highlights these writers' enduring impact on movement conservatism.

Author : Alexander Manshel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231558821
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing Backwards written by Alexander Manshel and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary fiction has never been less contemporary. Midcentury writers tended to set their works in their own moment, but for the last several decades critical acclaim and attention have fixated on historical fiction. This shift is particularly dramatic for writers of color. Even as the literary canon has become more diverse, cultural institutions have celebrated Black, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous novelists almost exclusively for their historical fiction. Writing Backwards explores what the dominance of historical fiction in the contemporary canon reveals about American literary culture. Alexander Manshel investigates the most celebrated historical genres—contemporary narratives of slavery, the World War II novel, the multigenerational family saga, immigrant fiction, and the novel of recent history—alongside the literary and academic institutions that have elevated them. He examines novels by writers including Toni Morrison, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Colson Whitehead, Julia Alvarez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Michael Chabon, Julie Otsuka, Yaa Gyasi, Ben Lerner, and Tommy Orange in the context of MFA programs, literary prizes, university syllabi, book clubs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Manshel studies how historical fiction has evolved over the last half century, documenting the formation of the newly inclusive literary canon as well as who and what it still excludes. Offering new insight into how institutions shape literature and the limits of historical memory, Writing Backwards also considers recent challenges to the historical turn in American fiction.

Author : Bryan Santin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316516482
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Novel and Politics written by Bryan Santin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes how political movements, ideas, and events shaped the American novel.

Author : Mary Esteve
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503614387
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Incremental Realism written by Mary Esteve and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural history of efforts undertaken by literary realists, public intellectuals, and policy activists to advance the value of public institutions and the claims of socioeconomic justice. Esteve specifically focuses on era-defining authors of realist fiction, including Philip Roth, Gwendolyn Brooks, Patricia Highsmith, Paula Fox, Peter Taylor, and Mary McCarthy, who mobilized the trope of happiness to reinforce the crucial value of public institutions, such as the public library, and the importance of pursuing socioeconomic justice, as envisioned by the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and welfare-state liberals. In addition to embracing specific symbols of happiness, these writers also developed narrative modes—what Esteve calls "incremental realism"—that made justifiable the claims of disadvantaged Americans on the nation-state and promoted a small-canvas aesthetics of moderation. With this powerful demonstration of the way postwar literary fiction linked the era's familiar trope of happiness to political arguments about socioeconomic fairness and individual flourishing, Esteve enlarges our sense of the postwar liberal imagination and its attentiveness to better, possible worlds.

Author : Jolene Hubbs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009250655
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Class, Whiteness, and Southern Literature written by Jolene Hubbs and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how representations of poor white southerners helped shape middle-class identity and major American literary movements and genres.

Author : Justin Parks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009347837
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America written by Justin Parks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis.

Author : Owen Clayton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009348078
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos written by Owen Clayton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most enduring version of the hobo that has come down from the so-called 'Golden Age of Tramping' (1890s to 1940s) is an American cultural icon, signifying freedom from restraint and rebellion to the established order while reinforcing conservative messages about American exceptionalism, individualism, race, and gender. Vagabonds, Tramps, and Hobos shows that this 'pioneer hobo' image is a misrepresentation by looking at works created by transient artists and thinkers, including travel literature, fiction, memoir, early feminist writing, poetry, sociology, political journalism, satire, and music. This book explores the diversity of meanings that accrue around 'the hobo' and 'the tramp'. It is the first analysis to frame transiency within a nineteenth-century literary tradition of the vagabond, a figure who attempts to travel without money. This book provide new ways for scholars to think about the activity and representation of US transiency.

Author : Sarah E. Chinn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009442694
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disability, the Body, and Radical Intellectuals in the Literature of the Civil War and Reconstruction written by Sarah E. Chinn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white supremacy. It gives readers a new way to think about the Civil War and Reconstruction.