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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism - A Literary History, 1945-2008 (Hardcover)
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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism - A Literary History, 1945-2008 (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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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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