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Fantasies of the New Class : Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.