What America read : taste, class, and the novel, 1920-1960 / Gordon Hutner.

Hutner explains that realist novels of the mid-20th-century were frequently lauded when they first appeared. They are almost completely unread now, he contends, largely because they record the middle-class encounter with modern life. This middle-class realism, he shows, reveals a surprising engageme...

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Main Author: Hutner, Gordon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2009.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The 1920s -- The 1930s -- The 1940s -- The 1950s -- Conclusion. 
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