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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    27 March 2021
    11 March 2021
    ISBN:
    9781108961974
    9781108832656
    9781108932202
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108961974
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.61kg, 308 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.48kg, 308 Pages
    • Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (186)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, English Literature after 1945
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture (186)
    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Literary Theory, English Literature after 1945
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    Bryan M. Santin examines over a half-century of intersection between American fiction and postwar conservatism. He traces the shifting racial politics of movement conservatism to argue that contemporary perceptions of literary form and aesthetic value are intrinsically connected to the rise of the American Right. Instead of casting postwar conservatives as cynical hustlers or ideological fanatics, Santin shows how the long-term rhetorical shift in conservative notions of literary value and prestige reveal an aesthetic antinomy between high culture and low culture. This shift, he argues, registered and mediated the deeper foundational antinomy structuring postwar conservatism itself: the stable social order of traditionalism and the creative destruction of free-market capitalism. Postwar conservatives produced, in effect, an ambivalent double register in the discourse of conservative literary taste that sought to celebrate neo-aristocratic manifestations of cultural capital while condemning newer, more progressive manifestations revolving around racial and ethnic diversity.

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