The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965 by Kalisch, Michael

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965

The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the...
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Author: Michael Kalisch
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The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965 by Kalisch, Michael

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965

$181.20

The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965

$181.20
Author: Michael Kalisch
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than its possibilities. Reflecting a broadly held view among critics that midcentury fiction was in crisis or decline, these 'minor writers' sought to make a virtue of what were taken to be the novel's bleak prospects, crafting fictions of modest proportions and seemingly attenuated ambition that reflexively explored their own aesthetic limitations. Ironically, the book argues, midcentury anxieties about the 'death of the novel' breathed new life into it. Blending literary criticism and intellectual history, the book offers close readings of five writers who shared this curious project for the novel, an account of which adds texture to our understanding of the aesthetic diversity of midcentury American literature.

Author: Michael Kalisch
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 08/31/2024
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781399526869

About the Author

Michael Kalisch is Lecturer in 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature at the University of Bristol. He is the author of The Politics of Male Friendship in Contemporary American Fiction (2021) and editor of Benjamin Markovits: Critical Essays (2024).


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