Mary Esteve

Incremental Realism

Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book offers a revisionist literary and cultural history of the postwar era to document how writers of realist fiction worked to advance the crucial value of public institutions and ongoing pursuits of socioeconomic justice within the symbolic economy of welfare-state liberalism"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781503613942
• ISBN-10: 1503613941
• Artikelnr.: 59414553

Autorenporträt

Mary Esteve is Associate Professor of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of The Aesthetics and Politics of the Crowd in American Literature (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Symbolic Economy of Postwar American Happiness
1. The Art, Sociology, and Library Politics of Happiness in Early Philip
Roth
2. Gwendolyn Brooks and the Welfare State
3. Queer Consumerism, Straight Happiness: Patricia Highsmith's "Right
Economy"
4. Countries of Health
5. Writing Mute Liberalism: Peter Taylor, the South, and Journeyman
Happiness
Coda: The Politics of Contemporary Happiness