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  • Code Name Puritan

    Norman Holmes Pearson at the Nexus of Poetry, Espionage, and American Power

    An insightful biography of an unassuming literary scholar—and spy—who transformed postwar American culture.Although his impact on twentieth-century American cultural life was profound, few people know the story of Norman Holmes Pearson. Pearson's life embodied the Cold War alliances among US artists, scholars, and the national-security state that coalesced after World War II. As a Yale professor ... Leer más

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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook to Cold War Literary Cultures

    Edición de Greg Barnhisel ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Handbooks
    Adopting a unique historical approach to its subject and with a particular focus on the institutions involved in the creation, dissemination, and reception of literature, this handbook surveys the way in which the Cold War shaped literature and literary production, and how literature affected the course of the Cold War. To do so, in addition to more 'traditional' sources it uses institutions like ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • Cold War Modernists

    Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy

    European intellectuals of the 1950s dismissed American culture as nothing more than cowboy movies and the A-bomb. In response, American cultural diplomats tried to show that the United States had something to offer beyond military might and commercial exploitation. Through literary magazines, traveling art exhibits, touring musical shows, radio programs, book translations, and conferences, they ... Leer más

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  • Workshops of Empire

    Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing during the Cold War

    de Eric Bennett ...
    Series series New American Canon
    During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War ... Leer más

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  • The Other Blacklist

    The African American Literary and Cultural Left of the 1950s

    Mary Helen Washington recovers the vital role of 1950s leftist politics in the works and lives of modern African American writers and artists. While most histories of McCarthyism focus on the devastation of the blacklist and the intersection of leftist politics and American culture, few include the activities of radical writers and artists from the Black Popular Front. Washington's work ... Leer más

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  • Facing the Abyss

    American Literature and Culture in the 1940s

    Mythologized as the era of the “good war” and the “Greatest Generation,” the 1940s are frequently understood as a more heroic, uncomplicated time in American history. Yet just below the surface, a sense of dread, alienation, and the haunting specter of radical evil permeated American art and literature. Writers returned home from World War II and gave form to their disorienting experiences of ... Leer más

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  • American Night

    The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold War

    de Alan M. Wald ...
    American Night, the final volume of an unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a radical community longing for the rebirth of the social vision of the 1930s and struggling with a loss of moral certainty as the ... Leer más

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  • A History of American Working-Class Literature

    Edición de Nicholas Coles, Paul Lauter ...
    A History of American Working-Class Literature sheds light not only on the lived experience of class but the enormously varied creativity of working-class people throughout the history of what is now the United States. By charting a chronology of working-class experience, as the conditions of work have changed over time, this volume shows how the practice of organizing, economic competition, place ... Leer más

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  • American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920

    Edición de Mark W. Van Wienen ...
    Series series American Literature in Transition
    American Literature in Transition, 1910–1920 offers provocative new readings of authors whose innovations are recognized as inaugurating Modernism in US letters, including Robert Frost, Willa Cather, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, H. D., and Marianne Moore. Gathering the voices of both new and established scholars, the volume also reflects the diversity and contradictions of US ... Leer más

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  • Alan M. Wald's American Literary Left Trilogy, Omnibus E-Book

    Includes American Night, Trinity of Passion, and Exiles from a Future Time

    de Alan M. Wald ...
    Offered here for the first time as an Omnibus E-Book, this collection brings together Alan M. Wald’s ground-breaking trilogy.American Night, the final volume of this unprecedented trilogy, brings Alan Wald’s multigenerational history of Communist writers to a poignant climax. Using new research to explore the intimate lives of novelists, poets, and critics during the Cold War, Wald reveals a ... Leer más

    $53.99 USD

  • History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out

    Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History

    In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class identities. Concerned with carving out space for individuals in the story of the working class, Barrett ... Leer más

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  • Before Gender

    Lost Stories from Trans History, 1850-1950

    de Eli Erlick ...
    Explore the trailblazing lives of 30 trans people who radically change everything you’ve been told about transgender historyHighlighting influential individuals from 1850-1950 who are all but unknown today, Eli Erlick shares 30 remarkable stories from romance to rebellion and mystery to murder. These narratives chronicle the grit, joy, and survival of trans people long before gender became an ... Leer más

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