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1 online resource (x, 158 pages) |
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Princeton paperbacks |
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Princeton paperbacks.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Introduction : the twilight of the middle class -- Ch. 1 Ayn Rand and the politics of property -- Ch. 2 Race man, organization man, Invisible man -- Ch. 3 "The so-called Jewish novel" -- Ch. 4 Flannery O'Connor and the southern origins of identity politics |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-154) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Middle class in literature.
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Literature and the war
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White collar workers in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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American fiction
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Literature and society
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Middle class in literature
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War and literature
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White collar workers in literature
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400826810 |
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1400826810 |
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9786612158414 |
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6612158417 |
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1282158414 |
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9781282158412 |
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