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Author:
Mangrum, Benjamin, author.
Title:
Land of tomorrow : postwar fiction and the crisis of American liberalism / Benjamin Mangrum.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
x, 203 pages ; 25 cm
Subject:
American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Liberalism in literature.
Liberalism--United States--History--20th century.
American fiction.
Liberalism.
Liberalism in literature.
United States.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Aestheticism, civil society, and the origins of totalitarianism -- Existentialism In America: inequality, political action, and the twilight of New Deal reform -- The age of anxiety: existential psychology and the "decline" of American naturalism -- Southern comfort: authenticity, malaise, and the school of the holy ghost -- Mergers And acquisitions: business fiction and the theory of liberal management.
Summary:
"Land of Tomorrow sheds new light on changes within American liberalism after the Second World War. The postwar period's fiction, criticism, philosophy, and popular culture circulated and authorized political sensibilities opposed to the maintenance of social democratic reform in the United States"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
0190909374
9780190909376
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1047572202
LCCN:
2018012099
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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