Preface

1. Introduction: Culture, Counterculture, and Postwar America

2. War and the Novel: From World War II to Vietnam

3. The New Fiction: From the Home Front to the 1950s

4. On and Off the Road: The Outsider as Young Rebel

5. Apocalypse Now: A Literature of Extremes



Bibliography

Index

Morris Dickstein is Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.

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