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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