Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism

(Part of the Post•45 Series)

by Mary Esteve

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The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural history of efforts undertaken by literary realists, public intellectuals, and policy activists to advance the value of public institutions and the claims of socioeconomic justice.

Esteve specifically focuses on era-defining authors of realist...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1503614379

ISBN13:9781503614376

Release Date:January 2021

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:296 Pages

Weight:0.85 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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