TY - GEN digital ID - 131679280 TI - Mass-Market Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1972–2017 PY - 2018 SN - 9783319893877 PB - Cham Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of culture KW - Mass communications KW - Fiction KW - American literature KW - History of civilization KW - populaire cultuur KW - fantasy KW - communicatie KW - literatuur KW - leren KW - Amerikaanse cultuur KW - lesgeven KW - Grisham, John KW - Clancy, Tom KW - Koontz, Dean KW - Steel, Danielle KW - Crichton, Michael KW - anno 1970-1979 KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - anno 1990-1999 KW - anno 2000-2009 KW - anno 2010-2019 KW - United States of America KW - America UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:131679280 AB - 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 authors of the last fifty years: the idea of love within a New Economy (Danielle Steel), the role of government in scientific inquiry (Michael Crichton), entangled political alliances and legacies in the aftermath of the 1960s (Tom Clancy), the restructured corporation (John Grisham), and the blurred line between state and personal empowerment (Dean Koontz). To address the current crisis, this book examines how the changed character of American liberalism has been rendered legible for a mass audience. ER -