Research Catalog

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Description

1. 392 pages; 23 cm

Series statement

1. Phoenix books

Subject

1. Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994
2. Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 > Criticism and interpretation
3. Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
4. Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
5. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962 > Criticism and interpretation
6. Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979 > Criticism and interpretation
7. Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981 > Criticism and interpretation
8. Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
9. Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
10. Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995
11. Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993 > Criticism and interpretation
12. Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984
13. Schulberg, Budd
14. McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989 > Criticism and interpretation
15. Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970 > Criticism and interpretation
16. Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
17. Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978 > Criticism and interpretation
18. Morris, Wright, 1910-1998 > Criticism and interpretation
19. Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981 > Criticism and interpretation
20. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971 > Criticism and interpretation
21. Algren, Nelson, 1909-1981
22. Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999
23. Capote, Truman, 1924-1984
24. Clark, Walter Van Tilburg, 1909-1971
25. Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978
26. Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970
27. Faulkner, William, 1897-1962
28. Gordon, Caroline, 1895-1981
29. Hicks, Granville, 1901-1982
30. Lytle, Andrew Nelson, 1902-1995
31. McCarthy, Mary, 1912-1989
32. Morris, Wright, 1910-1998
33. Schulberg, Budd
34. Shaw, Irwin, 1913-1984
35. Stafford, Jean, 1915-1979
36. Stegner, Wallace, 1909-1993
37. Taylor, Peter, 1917-1994
38. Trilling, Lionel, 1905-1975
39. Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989
40. Welty, Eudora, 1909-2001
41. 1900-1999
42. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
43. American fiction
44. Roman américain > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: The shape of the forties -- The war novel. Background: the war behind the fiction ; Patterns of despair ; Patterns of affirmation -- Naturalism: the tactics of survival. The meaning of naturalism in the forties ; The survivors ; New voices, negro and white ; Nelson Algren: naturalism as the beat of an iron heart -- Fiction and the liberal assessment. The day of the locust for the liberal spirit ; The collapse of Marxism ; Traditional liberalism ; Budd Schulberg: the popular voice of the old liberalism ; Irwin Shaw: the popular ideas of the old liberalism ; The popular fiction of the old liberalism ; The new liberalism ; John Dos Passos and the need for rejection ; Granville Hicks and the painful process of reconstruction ; Mary McCarthy as the sceptical new liberal ; Lionel Trilling and the crisis in our culture ; A critique of the new liberalism -- Conservative imagination. Neo-conservatism and the idea vacuum ; James Gould Cozzens: the Pennsylvania voice of aggressive aristocracy ; The true religion and conservatism ; Southern conservatism ; William Faulkner: southern archetype ; Caroline Gordon: the logic of conservatism ; Andrew Lytle and Peter Taylor: conservative fiction in Tennessee ; Robert Penn Warren: the conservative quest for identity -- The new fiction. The new fiction defined: the triumph of art ; The new fiction and the gothic spirit ; Truman Capote and the twisted self ; Carson McCullers and the failure of dialogue ; Eudora Welty and the triumph of the imagination ; Paul Bowles and the passionate pursuit of disengagement ; The children of Henry James ; The two worlds of Jean Stafford -- In search of man and America. The fiction of the forties and the existential crisis ; Walter Van Tilburg Clark: amid confusion, the triumph of nature ; Wallace Stegner: the uncommitted ; Wright Morris: the artist in search of America ; Saul Bellow: man alive, sustained by love -- Appendix: Fiction of the forties.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 368-383)