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Author:

Schryer, Stephen.

Title:

Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer.

Publisher:

Columbia University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2011

Description:

278 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
Social classes in literature.
Professional employees in literature.
Elite (Social sciences) in literature.
Professional employees--United States--History--20th century.
Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.

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.

ISBN:

0231527470 (ebk.)
9780231527477 (ebk.)
0231157576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780231157575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0231157568 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780231157568 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)670238213

LCCN:

2010041827

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)