John Updike and the Cold War
Subtitle: drawing the Iron Curtain
By: D. Quentin Miller.
Publisher: University of Missouri Press; University of Missouri
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Columbia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Updike, John -- Political and social views.; Updike, John -- Knowledge -- History.; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Anti-communist movements in literature.; International relations in literature.; Communism in literature.; Cold War in literature.; Communist countries -- In literature.; Soviet Union -- In literature.
Description: "One of the most enduring and prolific American authors of the latter half of the twentieth century, John Updike has long been recognized by critics for his importance as a social commentator. Yet, John Updike and the Cold War is the first work to examine how Updike's views grew out of the defining context of American culture in his time - the Cold War.

Quentin Miller argues that because Updike's career began as the Cold War was taking shape in the mid-1950s, the world he creates in his entire literary oeuvre - fiction, poetry, and nonfiction prose - reflects the optimism and the anxiety of that decade."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-189) and index.