American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960
Subtitle: A Critical Study
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9781476672748
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century; City and town life in literature; Cities and towns in literature
Description: "In literature and popular culture, small town America is often idealized as distilling the national spirit. Examined together, these works are key to understanding how mid-20th century America refashioned itself in light of a new postwar order, and how the literary small town both obscures and reveals contradictions at the heart of the American experience"--