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

by Andrew Hoberek

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: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"