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Explores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.

Table of Contents
Introduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community
1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s America Day by Day
2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and America and Americans
3. Hopefulness: On the Road with Charles Kuralt
4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell
Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique
Works Cited

Weak Nationalisms

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      Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9781496215482, 978-1496215482
      ISBN10: 1496215486

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores the complex and dynamic ways in which emotions shape the post-World War II writing of the United States and argues that reading these narratives for their affects is to read for the emotional work that takes place between the part and the whole.

      Table of Contents
      Introduction: Affected Readers in an Imagined Community
      1. Moodiness: The Everyday America of Beauvoir’s America Day by Day
      2. Curiosity and its Discontents: Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley and America and Americans
      3. Hopefulness: On the Road with Charles Kuralt
      4. Incredulity: Reading Sarah Vowell
      Conclusion: Affected Critics: the Nation and the Limits of Critique
      Works Cited

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