Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward...
| 1. VerfasserIn: | |
|---|---|
| Medienart: | Elektronisch Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Subito Bestelldienst: | Jetzt bestellen. |
| Verfügbarkeit prüfen: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Princeton
Princeton University Press
2009
|
| In: | Jahr: 2009 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Literatur
/ Erotik (Motiv)
/ Sozialer Aufstieg (Motiv)
/ Geschichte 1800-2000
B Girard, René 1923-2015 |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Fiction
20th century
History and criticism
B Fiction 19th century History and criticism B Electronic books |
| Online-Zugang: |
Volltext (Aggregator) Volltext (Verlag) |
| Parallele Ausgabe: | Nicht-Elektronisch
|
| Zusammenfassung: | We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and |
|---|---|
| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Physische Details: | Online-Ressource (324 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-14663-8 |
