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  1. The moderate imagination
    the political thought of John Updike and the decline of New Deal liberalism
    Author: Fromer, Yoav
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run --... more

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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run -- Sleeping together, bowling alone: Couples and the decline of civic engagement -- Things don't mix: Rabbit redux and the unraveling of postwar liberalism -- Conclusion: Liberalism redux "One of the most pressing questions to arise in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election concerned the white working class's so-called "abandonment" of the Democratic Party, especially in the Rust Belt, and their surprising embrace of Donald Trump. To better understand this development, The Moderate Imagination turns to an unlikely source: the writings of the novelist John Updike (1932-2009), which reveal Updike's insightful political imagination and shed light on the decline of New Deal liberalism. Updike has long been viewed as a gifted writer, poet, and essayist whose sensitivity to the quotidian combined with an extraordinary talent for realism enabled him to gracefully chronicle the postwar experience. But just as much as he was a man of letters, this book advances the counterintuitive notion that he was also an ardent man of ideas-political ideas. According to Yoav Fromer, Updike's fiction should not be read merely as a reflection of the postwar era but also as an investigation into the liberal political culture that helped define it"--

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780700629527
    Subjects: Politisches Denken; Liberalisierung
    Other subjects: Updike, John (1932-2009); Updike, John / Political and social views; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: x, 290 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  2. The moderate imagination
    the political thought of John Updike and the decline of New Deal liberalism
    Author: Fromer, Yoav
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run --... more

    Location:
    Freie Universität Berlin, Universitätsbibliothek
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    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run -- Sleeping together, bowling alone: Couples and the decline of civic engagement -- Things don't mix: Rabbit redux and the unraveling of postwar liberalism -- Conclusion: Liberalism redux "One of the most pressing questions to arise in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election concerned the white working class's so-called "abandonment" of the Democratic Party, especially in the Rust Belt, and their surprising embrace of Donald Trump. To better understand this development, The Moderate Imagination turns to an unlikely source: the writings of the novelist John Updike (1932-2009), which reveal Updike's insightful political imagination and shed light on the decline of New Deal liberalism. Updike has long been viewed as a gifted writer, poet, and essayist whose sensitivity to the quotidian combined with an extraordinary talent for realism enabled him to gracefully chronicle the postwar experience. But just as much as he was a man of letters, this book advances the counterintuitive notion that he was also an ardent man of ideas-political ideas. According to Yoav Fromer, Updike's fiction should not be read merely as a reflection of the postwar era but also as an investigation into the liberal political culture that helped define it"--

     
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9780700629527
    Subjects: Politisches Denken; Liberalisierung
    Other subjects: Updike, John (1932-2009); Updike, John / Political and social views; Politics and literature / United States / History / 20th century
    Scope: x, 290 Seiten
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. The moderate imagination
    the political thought of John Updike and the decline of New Deal liberalism
    Author: Fromer, Yoav
    Published: [2020]; © 2020
    Publisher:  University Press of Kansas, Lawrence

    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run --... more

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    Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen
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    a ang 957 upd 7/720
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
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    2020 A 8661
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    Introduction -- The man in the middle -- The liberal education of John Updike -- The poorhouse fair: The liberal state and Its discontents -- Family matters: Therapeutic liberalism, consumer capitalism, and the decline of the family in Rabbit, Run -- Sleeping together, bowling alone: Couples and the decline of civic engagement -- Things don't mix: Rabbit redux and the unraveling of postwar liberalism -- Conclusion: Liberalism redux. "One of the most pressing questions to arise in the aftermath of the 2016 US presidential election concerned the white working class's so-called "abandonment" of the Democratic Party, especially in the Rust Belt, and their surprising embrace of Donald Trump. To better understand this development, The Moderate Imagination turns to an unlikely source: the writings of the novelist John Updike (1932-2009), which reveal Updike's insightful political imagination and shed light on the decline of New Deal liberalism. Updike has long been viewed as a gifted writer, poet, and essayist whose sensitivity to the quotidian combined with an extraordinary talent for realism enabled him to gracefully chronicle the postwar experience. But just as much as he was a man of letters, this book advances the counterintuitive notion that he was also an ardent man of ideas-political ideas. According to Yoav Fromer, Updike's fiction should not be read merely as a reflection of the postwar era but also as an investigation into the liberal political culture that helped define it"--

     
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    Content information
    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9780700629527
    Subjects: Politics and literature
    Other subjects: Updike, John; Updike, John (1932-2009)
    Scope: x, 290 Seiten
    Notes:

    Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 247-269