Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State Liberalism

by Mary Esteve

Book Overview

The postwar US political imagination coalesced around a quintessential midcentury American trope: happiness. In Incremental Realism, Mary Esteve offers a bold, revisionist literary and cultural history of efforts undertaken by literary realists, public intellectuals, and policy activists to advance the value of public institutions and the claims of socioeconomic justice.

Esteve specifically focuses on era-defining authors of realist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503614379
• ISBN13: 9781503614376
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"