Fantasies of the new class [electronic resource] : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer

Author:: Schryer, Stephen
Published:: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Physical Description:: 278 p. ; 22 cm.

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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.

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

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

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