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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... entrepreneurial adventure to corporate-suburban compromise Bestselling novels 1956–1968: the varieties of self-fulfillment - the goal achieved Bestselling novels 1969–1975: the failure of success The social critics Conclusion Notes ...
... entrepreneurial gospel to less fortunate nations around the world. Indeed, the end of World War II marked the beginning of what has been called the American quarter-century - a time of clear global hegemony for our country and ...
... entrepreneurial, success. Yet in the wake of the sixties, which had unsettled traditional social forms and mores - from the Presidency and the executive branch of the federal government to the inmost manifestations of individual ...
... entrepreneurial' conception of success that unites individual and social amelioration. Later, as the sense of limitless expansion fades, what I have called a 'corporate-suburban' pattern emerges: work and family-centered leisure are ...
... entrepreneurial ideal because both work and leisure had been drastically transformed from the era of the expanding frontier and the small enterprise. As I detail in Chapter 6, David Riesman, William H. Whyte, and C. Wright Mills, social ...
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from entrepreneurial adventure | |
the varieties of selffulfillment | |
the failure of success | |
The social critics | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |