American Dream and the Popular Novel
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American Middle Class Culture
Author_Elizabeth Long
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changing ideals of American success
Contemporary Society
Cultural Evidence
cultural sociology
Elaborate Quantification
Entrepreneurial Definition
Entrepreneurial Ethos
Entrepreneurial Ideal
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Good Life
Gray Flannel Suit
Hardcover Bestsellers
Hardcover Trade Publishing
Jacques Coeur
Judith Rossner
Louisiana Rice
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Mailer
Mass Market Paperbacks
NORC
postwar literature analysis
Rabbit's Career
Rabbit’s Career
Religious Congregations
social criticism theory
Steinbeck
success narratives
Tv World
twentieth century fiction studies
Updike
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138105799
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jun 2019
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
