20th century U.S. cultural history
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American authors on postwar society
American authors' cultural commentar
American literary responses to affluence
American social thought
American writers on materialism
American writing and consumer ethics
analysis of American lifestyle
analysis of middle-class culture
Author_Daniel Horowitz
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consumer culture critique
consumerism and morality
critical essays on consumer culture
cultural ambivalence in literature
cultural commentary through literature
cultural criticism in postwar America
cultural criticism of the American Dream
cultural history and literary study
cultural reflections of postwar America
economic prosperity in literature
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history of American consumption
Lewis Mumford analysis
literary analysis of economic growth
literary debates on wealth and society
literary engagement with economic change
literary engagement with postwar culture
literary exploration of prosperity
literary perspectives on wealth
literary reflections on affluence
literary treatment of social change
literature and American identity
literature and consumerism
literature and social critique
literature and social values
literature and societal values
literature as social critique
mid-20th century social commentary
post-World War II U.S. society
postwar American literature
postwar economic optimism
postwar literature and social observation
postwar social critique
social ambivalence in literature
social criticism in literature
U.S. cultural history 1945-1980
wartime and postwar prosperity
Product details
- ISBN 9781558495043
- Weight: 528g
- Dimensions: 156 x 232mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2005
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A wide-ranging exploration of conflicting American attitudes toward affluence This book charts the reactions of prominent American writers to the unprecedented prosperity of the decades following World War II. It begins with an examination of Lewis Mumford's war-time call for ""democratic"" consumption and concludes with an analysis of the origins of President Jimmy Carter's ""malaise"" speech of 1979. Between these bookends, Daniel Horowitz documents a broad range of competing views, each in its own way reflective of a deep-seated ambivalence toward consumer culture.
DANIEL HOROWITZ is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies at Smith College and author of Betty Friedan and the Making of The Feminine Mystique: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism.
