TY - BOOK AU - Schryer,Stephen TI - Fantasies of the new class: ideologies of professionalism in post-World War II American fiction SN - 9780231157568 AV - PS374 S291 F 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - New York PB - Columbia University Press KW - American fiction KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Social classes in literature KW - Professional employees in literature KW - Elite (Social sciences) in literature KW - Professional employees KW - United States KW - History KW - Literature and society N1 - 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 ER -