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Epilogue: The Curious (Conservative) Case of Marilynne Robinson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 March 2021

Bryan M. Santin
Bryan M. Santin
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Concordia University, Irvine
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This brief coda examines the curious case of Marilynne Robinson, one of the most decorated living American novelists who seems like she would easily be aligned with American conservatism, but is not, for reasons that are intertwined with the perceived anti-intellectualism of the political Right. In short, Robinson epitomizes the prevailing, though flawed, assumption within the literary field that the cultural capital associated with highbrow literature is inevitably aligned with progressive liberalism.

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Marilynne RobinsonconservatismliberalismBarack ObamaAmerican literaturecultural capital
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Postwar American Fiction and the Rise of Modern Conservatism
A Literary History, 1945–2008
 , pp. 240 - 245
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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