Material Ambitions
Self-Help and Victorian Literature
«Rebecca Richardson shows that even those writers who appear to celebrate self-help invite more nuanced readings. They explored the ways in which aspiration encourages not only ambition but competition, and often exploitation – inequities, as declared by Richardson in a brief polemical coda, that persist today.
—Times Literary Supplement»
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What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781421441979
- Utgivelsesår
- 2022
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«Rebecca Richardson shows that even those writers who appear to celebrate self-help invite more nuanced readings. They explored the ways in which aspiration encourages not only ambition but competition, and often exploitation – inequities, as declared by Richardson in a brief polemical coda, that persist today.
—Times Literary Supplement»