- Description
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Fantasies of the new class (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Fantasies of the new class (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-255) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2010041827
- OCLC
- ssj0000484311
- Author
Schryer, Stephen.
- Title
Fantasies of the new class [electronic resource] : 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.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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