| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 450 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-424) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- Conclusion. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American fiction. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Realism in literature.
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Realism in literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Literature and society. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hutner, Gordon. What America read. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009 9780807832271 0807832278 (DLC) 2008050469 (OCoLC)221141861 |
| ISBN |
9780807887752 (electronic book) |
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0807887757 (electronic book) |
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9781469605210 (electronic book) |
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146960521X (electronic book) |
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9780807832271 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0807832278 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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