American Fiction in the Cold War (1991)
ISBN: 9780299128449
American Fiction in the Cold War (1991)
ISBN: 9780299128449
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In American Fiction in the Cold War Thomas Hill Schaub makes it clear that Trilling’s summary was in itself a mythic reconstruction, a prominent example of the way liberal writers in the late 1940s and 1950s came to terms with their political past.
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ISBN
9780299128449
Author
Thomas Hill Schaub
Binding
Soft cover
Date of publication
1991
Format
Book
Language
English
School book
No
Schaub’s book brilliantly analyzes their efforts to reshape an “old” liberalism alleged to hold naively optimistic views of human nature, scientific reason, and social progress into a “new,” skeptical liberalism that recognized the persistence of human evil, the fragility of reason, and the ambiguity of moral decision.
