Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism - A Literary History, 1945-2008

This book presents a new contextualization of the cultural politics of postwar American fiction, arguing that the robust linkage between progressive liberalism and highbrow literary fiction in the post-sixties United States must be understood in relation to the rise of modern conservatism and its evolving positions on race.

List of contents

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.

About the author

Bryan M. Santin obtained his Ph.D. in English from the University of Notre Dame in 2017. He is Assistant Professor of English at Concordia University, Irvine, where he teaches courses in American literature, world literature, and composition.

Product details

• Authors: Bryan Santin, Bryan M Santin, Bryan M. Santin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781108832656
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83265-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism