The American Dream and the Popular Novel

ISBN-13: 9781138105799 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 252 str.

Elizabeth Long

Opis

This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books as cultural evidence, Elizabeth Long argues that the meaning of the American dream has changed dramatically, but in a more complex fashion than has been recognised by that country’s most prominent social critics.

O autorze

Elizabeth Long