Twilight of the Middle Class: Post-World War II American Fiction and White-Collar Work Post-World War II American Fiction

by Andrew Hoberek

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:069112146X

ISBN13:9780691121468

Release Date:August 2005

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:176 Pages

Weight:0.66 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"

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