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Material Ambitions : Self-Help and Victorian Literature /
"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 demon...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | "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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations (black and white) ; |
| ISBN: | 9781421441986 |