Liberalism and American Literature in the Clinton Era

Based on the author's dissertation, (doctoral)--University of Illinois, 2014.

List of contents

Introduction: Try for a moment to feel this; 1. The varieties of American neoliberalism; 2. 'The Family Gone Wrong': experimental literature and conservative politics; 3. Post-political form; 4. 'SUPERNAFTA' vs. 'El Gran Mojado': alternative fictional realities and the fight for free trade; Afterword: Then we came to the end.

About the author

Ryan M. Brooks is an Assistant Professor of English at West Texas A&M University. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work has been published in Twentieth-Century Literature, 49th Parallel, Mediations, The Account, and the critical anthology The Wire: Urban Decay and American Television.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan M. Brooks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781316519813
• ISBN: 978-1-316-51981-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literary studies: general