Böcker av Morris Dickstein

Widely admired as the definitive cultural history of the 1960s, this groundbreaking workfinallyreappears in a new edition."

Reinterprets Stendhal's metaphor and tracks the different worlds of an array of twentieth-century writers ranging from realists to wildly inventive postwar writers. This book puts forward an argument that fiction yields rich insight into its subject, and that literature can also be a form of historical understanding.

The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American society. Offering a social as well as literary history, Morris Dickstein provides a wide-ranging and frank assessment of more than 20 key figures.