What America read : taste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960 /
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 engageme...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©2009.
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 450 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-424) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780807887752 0807887757 9781469605210 146960521X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |