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

Title
Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer.
Author
Schryer, Stephen.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.

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278 p.; 22 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • 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.
Call Number
JFD 12-700
ISBN
  • 9780231157568 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231157568 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231157575 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0231157576 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780231527477 (ebk.)
  • 0231527470 (ebk.)
LCCN
2010041827
OCLC
YBP 2010041827
Author
Schryer, Stephen.
Title
Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.
Research Call Number
JFD 12-700
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