What America read: taste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960
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1. Verfasser: Hutner, Gordon (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press ©2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-424) and index
Introduction -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- Conclusion
Hutner explains that realist novels of the mid-20th-century were frequently lauded when they first appeared. They are almost completely unread now, he contends, largely because they record the middle-class encounter with modern life. This middle-class realism, he shows, reveals a surprising engagement with the social issues that most fully challenged readers in the United States, including race relations, politics, immigration, and sexuality. Reading these novels now offers an extraordinary opportunity to witness debates about what kind of nation America would become and what place its newly d
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ISBN:0807887757
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9780807887752
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