Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017

• Main Author: Blouin, Michael J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: United States-Study and teaching.; Popular Culture.; America-Literatures.; Communication.; Fiction.; American Culture.; Popular Culture .; North American Literature.; Media and Communication.

Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972-2017 tracks the transformation of liberal thought in the contemporary United States through the unique lens of the popular paperback. The book focuses on cultural shifts as they appear in works written by some of the most widely-read au...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Popular Paperbacks and the Transformation of American Liberalism
• 2. The Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic of Mass-Market Fiction
• 3. Danielle Steel and New Home Economics
• 4. Michael Crichton and the Heritage of Invention
• 5. Tom Clancy and the Liberal Family Tree
• 6. John Grisham and the New Economy Thriller
• 7. Dean Koontz and the Problem with Power.