Land of tomorrow : postwar fiction and the crisis of American liberalism /

This book analyzes changes in American intellectual life after the Second World War. It argues that sweeping cultural and intellectual trends undermined the legacy of social-democratic reform instituted by the New Deal. 'Land of Tomorrow' offers a genealogy of these changes within American...

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Main Author:
Mangrum, Benjamin
Format:
Electronic eBook
Language:
English
Published:
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Summary:
This book analyzes changes in American intellectual life after the Second World War. It argues that sweeping cultural and intellectual trends undermined the legacy of social-democratic reform instituted by the New Deal. 'Land of Tomorrow' offers a genealogy of these changes within American liberalism by looking to writers and intellectuals such as Vladimir Nabokov, Ralph Ellison, Hannah Arendt, Lionel Trilling, Richard Wright, Saul Bellow, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, J. D. Salinger, Ken Kesey, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, and many others.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2018.
Audience:
Specialized.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-090939-0
0-19-090940-4
0-19-090938-2
Subjects:
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Liberalism in literature.
Liberalism > United States > History > 20th century.
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