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

Santin, Bryan M.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1108832652 ISBN 13 : 9781108832656

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Synopsis

Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1108832652
• ISBN 13: 9781108832656
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 290
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