TY - BOOK AU - Trask,Michael TI - Camp sites: sex, politics, and academic style in postwar America T2 - Post 45 SN - 0804786631 AV - PS225 .T73 2013 U1 - 810.9/3587392 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - American literature KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Homosexuality and literature KW - United States KW - History KW - Politics and literature KW - Literature and society KW - Camp (Style) KW - Politics and culture KW - Universities and colleges KW - Political aspects KW - Littérature américaine KW - 20e siècle KW - Histoire et critique KW - Homosexualité et littérature KW - États-Unis KW - Histoire KW - Politique et littérature KW - Littérature et société KW - Camp (Esthétique) KW - Politique et culture KW - Universités KW - Aspect politique KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - American KW - General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Manners and customs KW - Social life and customs KW - 1945-1970 KW - Mœurs et coutumes KW - Electronic books KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The schooling of America -- Campus novels and experimental persons -- Liberal perversion and countercultural commitment -- From impression management to expressive authenticity -- Deviant ethnographies -- Feminism, meritocracy, and the postindustrial economy N2 - Reading across the disciplines of the mid-century university, this book argues that the political shift in postwar America from consensus liberalism to New Left radicalism entailed as many continuities as ruptures. Both Cold War liberals and radicals understood the university as a privileged site for ""doing politics, "" and both exiled homosexuality from the political ideals each group favored. Liberals, who advanced a politics of style over substance, saw gay people as unable to separate the two, as incapable of maintaining the opportunistic suspension of disbelief on which a tough-mind UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=713343 ER -