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Incremental realism : postwar American fiction, happiness, and welfare-state liberalism

Title
Incremental realism : postwar American fiction, happiness, and welfare-state liberalism / Mary Esteve.
Author
Esteve, Mary
Publication
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

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Description
viii, 280 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
"This book offers a revisionist literary and cultural history of the postwar era to document how writers of realist fiction worked to advance the crucial value of public institutions and ongoing pursuits of socioeconomic justice within the symbolic economy of welfare-state liberalism"--
Series Statement
Post 45
Uniform Title
Post 45.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Authors, American > Political and social views
  • Happiness in literature
  • Welfare state in literature
  • Liberalism in literature
  • Realism in literature
  • American fiction
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : the symbolic economy of postwar American happiness -- The art, sociology, and library politics of happiness in early Philip Roth -- Gwendolyn Brooks and the welfare state -- Queer consumerism, straight happiness : Patricia Highsmith's "Right economy" -- Countries of health -- Writing mute liberalism : Peter Taylor, the South, and journeyman happiness -- Coda : the politics of contemporary happiness.
Call Number
JFE 21-6667
ISBN
  • 9781503613942
  • 1503613941
  • 9781503614376
  • 1503614379
LCCN
2020021118
OCLC
1138669557
Author
Esteve, Mary, author.
Title
Incremental realism : postwar American fiction, happiness, and welfare-state liberalism / Mary Esteve.
Publisher
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Post 45
Post 45.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Other Form:
Online version: Esteve, Mary. Incremental realism Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. 9781503614383 (DLC) 2020021119
Research Call Number
JFE 21-6667
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