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Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer.
LIBRA PS374.S68 S35 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schryer, Stephen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Social classes in literature.
- Professional employees in literature.
- Elite (Social sciences) in literature.
- Professional employees--United States--History--20th century.
- Professional employees.
- Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Literature and society.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 278 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
- Contents:
- Introduction: fantasies of the new class
- The republic of letters: the new criticism, Harvard sociology, and the idea of the university
- Life upon the horns of the white man's dilemma: Ralph Ellison, Gunnar Myrdal, and the project of national therapy
- Mary McCarthy's field guide to U.S. intellectuals: tradition and modernization theory in Birds of America
- Saul Bellow's class of explaining creatures: Mr. Sammler's planet and the rise of neoconservatism
- Experts without institutions: New Left professionalism in Marge Piercy and Ursula K. Le Guin
- Don Delillo's academia: revisiting the new class in White noise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780231157568
- 0231157568
- 9780231157575
- 0231157576
- 9780231527477
- 0231527470
- OCLC:
- 670238213
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