Leopards in the temple
Subtitle: the transformation of American fiction, 1945-1970
By: Morris Dickstein.
Edition: 1st Harvard University Press pbk. ed.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.
"Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5 were originally published in The Cambridge history of American literature, volume 7, 1940-1990, edited by Sacvan Bercovitch"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : culture, counterculture, and postwar America; title: War and the novel : from World War II to Vietnam; title: The new fiction : from the home front to the 1950s; title: On and off the road : the outsider as young rebel; title: Apocalypse now : a literature of extremes.