Material Ambitions : Self-Help and Victorian Literature / / Rebecca Richardson
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| Autore: |
Richardson Rebecca <1983->
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| Titolo: |
Material Ambitions : Self-Help and Victorian Literature / / Rebecca Richardson
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2021] |
| ©2021 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 255 pages ) : illustrations (black and white) ; |
| Disciplina: | 820.9353 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ambition in literature |
| Conduct of life in literature | |
| English fiction - 19th century - History and criticism | |
| Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Literary criticism |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Material Ambitions |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-4197-7 |
| 9781421441986 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910812402403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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