Workshops of Empire: Stegner, Engle, and American Creative Writing During the Cold War

by Eric Bennett

During and just after World War II, an influential group of American writers and intellectuals projected a vision for literature that would save the free world. Novels, stories, plays, and poems, they believed, could inoculate weak minds against simplistic totalitarian ideologies, heal the spiritual wounds of global catastrophe, and just maybe prevent the like from happening again. As the Cold War began, high-minded and well-intentioned scholars,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1609383710
• ISBN13: 9781609383718
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Iowa Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"