The American Dream and the Popular NovelRoutledge, 23.10.2017 - 256 Seiten This title, originally published in 1985, examines conceptions of success and the good life expressed in bestselling novels – ranging from historical sagas and spy thrillers to more serious works by Updike, Bellows, Steinbeck and Mailer – published from 1945 to 1975. Using these popular books as cultural evidence, Elizabeth Long argues that the meaning of the American dream has changed dramatically, but in a more complex fashion than has been recognised by that country’s most prominent social critics. Her study presents a challenge to prevailing social-scientific views of contemporary American culture, and represents, both in theory and method, an important contribution to the study of culture and social criticism. |
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... contemporary American culture, but reveals assumptions that our culture is both univocal and relatively transparent. So, this random and haphazard fashion of dealing with the potshards of our cultural 'midden' trivializes the very ...
... contemporary cultural formations by implicit or explicit contrast with nineteenth-century ideologies or modes of behavior. This conceptual strategy leads to several difficulties, of which the most serious may be the temptation to ...
... contemporary bestsellerdom, such as the domination of the market by a few large companies, were already established by 1945. The figures also imply that the readers of bestsellers were probably not faced with less choice of what books ...
... contemporary bestsellerdom were firmly in place well before the beginning of the period covered by this study. Literary agents, trying to make as much money as possible for their authors and themselves, entered American publishing in ...
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Inhalt
from entrepreneurial adventure | |
the varieties of selffulfillment | |
the failure of success | |
The social critics | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |