Incremental realism : postwar American fiction, happiness, and welfare-state liberalism / Mary Esteve.
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TextSeries: Post 45Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]Description: 1 online resource (viii, 280 pages)Content type: - text
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- 9781503614383
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- 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
- Roman américain -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique
- Écrivains américains -- Pensée politique et sociale
- Bonheur dans la littérature
- État providence dans la littérature
- Libéralisme dans la littérature
- Réalisme dans la littérature
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General
- American fiction
- Authors, American -- Political and social views
- Happiness in literature
- Liberalism in literature
- Realism in literature
- Welfare state in literature
- 1900-1999
- American cultural history
- happiness
- incremental realism
- liberalism
- postwar American fiction
- public institutions
- socioeconomic justice
- welfare state
- 813/.5409 23
- PS379 .E88 2021
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
In English.
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