Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century--still tied to the problems and orders of the Victorian era and Gilded Age--and the pervasive transformations of the later sixties. In Revolution, Matthew Wilkens argues that postwar fiction functions as a fascinating model of revolutionary change. Uniting literary criticism, cultural analysis, political theory, and science studies, Revolution reimagines the years after World War II as at once distinct from the decades surrounding them and part of a...
Socially, politically, and artistically, the 1950s make up an odd interlude between the first half of the twentieth century--still tied to the prob...
