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BL
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952431
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b706801
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| Main Entry
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Hoberek, Andrew,1967-
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| Title & Author
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The twilight of the middle class : : post-World War II American fiction and white-collar work /\ Andrew Hoberek.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, ©2005.
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| Series Statement
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Princeton paperbacks
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1 online resource (x, 158 pages)
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| ISBN
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1282158414
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: 1400826810
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: 6612158417
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: 9781282158412
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: 9781400826810
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: 9786612158414
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0691121451
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069112146X
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9780691121451
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9780691121468
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-154) and index.
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| Abstract
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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 small property owners to white-collar employees. In the process, he produces "compelling new accounts of identity politics and postmodernism that will be of.
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American fiction-- 20th century-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- United States-- History-- 20th century.
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Middle class in literature.
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White collar workers in literature.
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World War, 1939-1945-- United States-- Literature and the war.
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American fiction.
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HISTORY-- United States-- 20th Century.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- American-- General.
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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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| Dewey Classification
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813/.54093552
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| LC Classification
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PS374.M494H63 2005eb
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