01690cam a2200289 a 4500 101006s2011 nyu b 001 0 eng 9780231157568 9780231157575 9780231527477 SDU PS374 S291 F 2011 Schryer, Stephen. 218312 Fantasies of the new class : ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction / Stephen Schryer. New York : Columbia University Press, 2011. 278 p. 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. HKBU library YT2025 M09 American fiction 20th century History and criticism. Social classes in literature. 207950 Professional employees in literature. 218313 Elite (Social sciences) in literature. 218314 Professional employees United States History 20th century. 218315 Literature and society United States History 20th century. 198137 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112043 112043 0 0 lcc 0 PS0374 S291 F2011 0 CGB 281410 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-09-10 2 0 PS374 S291 F 2011 1000374087 2025-09-10 00:00:00 C.1 2025-09-10 GBE