American Fiction in the Cold WarIn American Fiction in the Cold War Thomas Hill Schaub makes it clear that Trilling's summary was in itself a mythic reconstruction, a prominent example of the way liberal writers in the late 1940s and 1950s came to terms with their political past. Schaub's book brilliantly analyzes their efforts to reshape an "old" liberalism alleged to hold naively optimistic views of human nature, scientific reason, and social progress into a "new," skeptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil, the fragility of reason, and the ambiguity of moral decision. |
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Thomas H. Schaub. American Fiction in the Cold War Zad Thomas Hill Schaub RIGHT Drawing by Bertrand Zadig HISTORY OF AMERICAN THOUGHT AND CULTURE Paul S. Boyer ,. Front Cover.
... culture ) Includes bibliographical references ( p . 195 ) and index . 1. American fiction - 20th century - History and criticism . 2. Political fiction , American - History and criticism . 3. Liberalism in literature . 4. Cold War in ...
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Contents
The Liberal Narrative | 3 |
Novelistic Discourse | 25 |
The Writers Point of View | 50 |
The Unhappy Consciousness | 68 |
Ellisons Invisible Man | 91 |
Christian Realism and OConnors A Good | 116 |