Material Ambitions
Self-Help and Victorian Literature
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139781421441962
- ISBN-101421441969
- Library of Congress Control Number2021011251
- OCLC Control Number1237750608
- Better World Books9781421441962
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL33902462M
Classifications
- LCCPR468.S43 R53 2021
Description
"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--
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