Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism

ISBN-13: 9781108932202 / Miękka / 2023 / 306 str.

Bryan M. Santin

Opis

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

Spis treści

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.