Title: American Small-Town Fiction, 1940-1960
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"--
Subjects: American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, City and town life in literature, Cities and towns in literature, American fiction, History and criticism