The Twilight of the Middle Class : : Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work / / Andrew Hoberek.
In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, D...
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Hoberek, Andrew, author. The Twilight of the Middle Class : Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work / Andrew Hoberek. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2005 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Twilight of the Middle Class -- CHAPTER ONE: Ayn Rand and the Politics of Property -- CHAPTER TWO: Race Man, Organization Man, Invisible Man -- CHAPTER THREE: "The So-Called Jewish Novel" -- CHAPTER FOUR: Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Origins of Identity Politics -- EPILOGUE: The Postmodern Fallacy -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In The Twilight of the Middle Class, Andrew Hoberek challenges the commonly held notion that post-World War II American fiction eschewed the economic for the psychological or the spiritual. Reading works by Ayn Rand, Ralph Ellison, Saul Bellow, Phillip Roth, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and others, he shows how both the form and content of postwar fiction responded to the transformation of the American middle class from small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of interest to anyone who reads or teaches contemporary fiction. Hoberek argues that despite the financial gains and job security enjoyed by the postwar middle class, the transition to white-collar employment paved the way for its current precarious state in a country marked by increasingly deep class divisions. Postwar fiction provided the middle class with various imaginative substitutes for its former property-owning independence, substitutes that since then have not only allowed but abetted this class's downward mobility. To read this fiction in the light of the middle-class experience is thus not only to restore the severed connections between literary and economic "history in the second half of the twentieth "century, but to explore the roots of the contemporary crisis of the middle class. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019) LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter PUP eBook-Package 2000-2015 9783110662580 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2014 9783110459531 print 9780691121468 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400826810 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400826810.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: The Twilight of the Middle Class -- CHAPTER ONE: Ayn Rand and the Politics of Property -- CHAPTER TWO: Race Man, Organization Man, Invisible Man -- CHAPTER THREE: "The So-Called Jewish Novel" -- CHAPTER FOUR: Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Origins of Identity Politics -- EPILOGUE: The Postmodern Fallacy -- Notes -- Index |
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