Fantasies of the New Class : : Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction / / Stephen Schryer.

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• VerfasserIn: Schryer, Stephen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

America's post-World War II prosperity created a boom in higher education, expanding the number of university-educated readers and making a new literary politics possible. Writers began to direct their work toward the growing professional class, and the American public in turn became more open...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgments
• INTRODUCTION
• 1. The Republic of Letters: THE NEW CRITICISM, HARVARD SOCIOLOGY, AND THE IDEA OF THE UNIVERSITY
• 2. "Life Upon the Horns of the White Man's Dilemma": RALPH ELLISON, GUNNAR MYRDAL, AND THE PROJECT OF NATIONAL THERAPY
• 3. Mary McCarthy's Field Guide to U.S. Intellectuals: TRADITION AND MODERNIZATION THEORY IN BIRDS OF AMERICA
• 4. Saul Bellow's Class of Explaining Creatures: MR. SAMMLER ' S PLANET AND THE RISE OF NEOCONSERVATISM
• 5. Experts Without Institutions: NEW LEFT PROFESSIONALISM IN MARGE PIERCY AND URSULA K. LE GUIN
• 6. Don DeLillo's Academia: REVISITING THE NEW CLASS IN WHITE NOISE
• Afterword
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index