{"product_id":"the-midcentury-minor-novel-michael-kalisch-9781399526869","title":"The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Midcentury Minor Novel\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Kalisch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1399526863\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781399526869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/31\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Michael Kalisch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46233156583679,"sku":"9781399526869","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8921a6a4-3f57-480a-b6fb-c4bf93ca066b.jpg?v=1728992227","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-midcentury-minor-novel-michael-kalisch-9781399526869","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}