Literature & Literary Studies
Understanding Truman Capote
by Thomas Fahy
Description
Truman Capote continues to have a powerful hold over the popular imagination. His glamorous lifestyle, which included hobnobbing with the rich and famous and frequenting the most elite nightclubs in Manhattan, makes him the subject of ongoing interest for public and academic audiences alike. In Understanding Truman Capote, Fahy provides a new direction for Capote studies that offers a way to reconsider the author’s work. By reading Capote’s work in its historical context, Fahy reveals the politics shaping his writing and positions him as a writer deeply engaged with the social anxieties of the 1940s and 1950s. Understanding Truman Capote also applies a highly interdisciplinary framework to the author’s writing that includes discussions of McCarthyism, the Lavender Scare, automobile culture, juvenile delinquency, suburbia, Beat culture, the early civil rights movement, female sexuality as embodied by celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe, and atomic age anxieties.
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"Fahy’s book is beautifully written and will surely be of a great use to readers first engaging Capote’s work."—Choice
Author Biography
Thomas Fahy is an associate professor of English and director of the American Studies program at Long Island University–Post. He is the author of numerous books and the editor of The Philosophy of Horror.
The University of South Carolina Press
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- Publisher University of South Carolina Press
- Publication Date June 2014
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781611173413 / 1611173413
- Publication Country or regionUnited States
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 39.99 USD
- Pages200
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- EditionFirst
- Copyright Year2014
- Dimensions9X6 inches
- SeriesUnderstanding Contemporary American Literature
