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 demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and it as well"--
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- Full title :Material ambitions : self-help and Victorian literature / Rebecca Richardson.
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"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 it as well"--
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- Publication Date:©2021
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication:Baltimore
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2021
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 255 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781421441962, 1421441969, 9781421441979, 1421441977
- oclc:on1237750608
- LC Classification:PR468.S43
- Dewey Decimal:820.9/353
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