Postwar American fiction and the rise of modern conservatism : a literary history, 1945-2008 /

By the second decade of the twenty-first century, the robust linkage between highbrow literary fiction and progressive liberalism was virtually axiomatic. In a 2014 cover story for National Review, 'Let Your Right Brain Run Free,' Adam Bellow, son of Saul Bellow, exemplified the typical co...

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Main Author: Santin, Bryan Michael (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2021].
Series:Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ; [186].
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Table of Contents:
  • US Literature and the Modern Right at Midcentury: Conservative Modernism, Race, and the Cold War, 1945-1960
  • The Conservative Movement's Foundational Fictions: Flannery O'Connor, Ayn Rand, and the Evolving Literary Forms of Conservatism, 1950-1964
  • The Strongbox of Custom: James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and the Shifting Racial Logic of Postwar Conservatism, 1955-1972
  • Movement Conservatism, Neoconservatism, and the New Right: Saul Bellow and Thomas Pynchon in the Age of Reagan, 1970-1990
  • The American Novel and the Reagan Revolution: The Ascent of Toni Morrison in the Age of Conservative Pop Fiction, 1987-2000
  • Epilogue: The Curious (Conservative) Case of Marilynne Robinson.