Bryan M. Santin

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

A Literary History, 1945-2008

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how shifting views on race caused the American conservative movement to surrender highbrow fiction to to progressive liberals.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108962148
• Artikelnr.: 70908934

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.