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Land of tomorrow : postwar fiction and the crisis of American liberalism / Benjamin Mangrum.

Author/creator Mangrum, Benjamin
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, [2019]
Descriptionx, 203 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
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Subject(s)
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 167-195) and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2018012099
ISBN9780190909376 (cloth : alk. paper)

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