From the way to wealth to the gospel of wealth [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation in the concept of success in American literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser / / Zennure Koseman |
Autore | Köseman Zennure |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bethesda, Md., : Academica Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/353 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Success in literature Self-reliance in literature Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature Social change in literature Wealth in literature Chance in literature Ethics in literature Social values in literature Moral conditions in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""CONTENTS""; ""COMMENDATORY FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER I THE WAY TO SUCCESS IN THE LATE COLONIAL ERA, EARLY NATIONAL REPUBLIC AND THE ROMANTIC PERIOD""; ""CHAPTER II THE MEANS AND MEANING OF RAGS TO RICHES DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA""; ""CHAPTER III THE GOSPEL OF SUCCESS IN THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465731203321 |
Köseman Zennure | ||
Bethesda, Md., : Academica Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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From the way to wealth to the gospel of wealth [[electronic resource] ] : the transformation in the concept of success in American literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser / / Zennure Koseman |
Autore | Köseman Zennure |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bethesda, Md., : Academica Press, c2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (205 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/353 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Success in literature Self-reliance in literature Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature Social change in literature Wealth in literature Chance in literature Ethics in literature Social values in literature Moral conditions in literature |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""CONTENTS""; ""COMMENDATORY FOREWORD""; ""PREFACE""; ""ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""CHAPTER I THE WAY TO SUCCESS IN THE LATE COLONIAL ERA, EARLY NATIONAL REPUBLIC AND THE ROMANTIC PERIOD""; ""CHAPTER II THE MEANS AND MEANING OF RAGS TO RICHES DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA""; ""CHAPTER III THE GOSPEL OF SUCCESS IN THE GILDED AGE AND THE PROGRESSIVE ERA""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""WORKS CITED""; ""INDEX"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792299203321 |
Köseman Zennure | ||
Bethesda, Md., : Academica Press, c2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Intimate and authentic economies : the American self-made man from Douglass to Chaplin / / Tom Nissley |
Autore | Nissley Tom <1967, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/353 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Success in literature Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature Self-culture in literature Self in literature Men in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-135-92458-9
0-415-86142-X 1-280-07595-3 0-203-50457-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Alienable, Intimate, Authentic; Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington; The Nature Theater of Americana: Horatio Alger's Earnest Commodities; Racial Credit, White Money, and the Novel of Assimilative Lament; The Reality Effect in the Film Machine: The Authentic Performances of the Silent Comedies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451358703321 |
Nissley Tom <1967, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Intimate and authentic economies : the American self-made man from Douglass to Chaplin / / Tom Nissley |
Autore | Nissley Tom <1967, > |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/353 |
Collana | Literary criticism and cultural theory |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
Success in literature Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature Self-culture in literature Self in literature Men in literature |
ISBN |
1-135-92457-0
1-135-92458-9 0-415-86142-X 1-280-07595-3 0-203-50457-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION Alienable, Intimate, Authentic; Free Labor and Intimate Capital: The Postwar Autobiographies of Douglass, Brown, and Washington; The Nature Theater of Americana: Horatio Alger's Earnest Commodities; Racial Credit, White Money, and the Novel of Assimilative Lament; The Reality Effect in the Film Machine: The Authentic Performances of the Silent Comedies; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783888703321 |
Nissley Tom <1967, > | ||
New York : , : Routledge, , 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Reading up : middle-class readers and the culture of success in the early twentieth-century United States / / Amy L. Blair |
Autore | Blair Amy L. <1972-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (264 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4/88097309041 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - Appreciation - United States - History - 20th century
Popular literature - United States - History and criticism Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century Middle class - Books and reading - United States - History - 20th century Success in literature Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century |
ISBN |
1-283-31969-1
9786613319692 1-4399-0669-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Cultivating Taste in a Mass-Market World; 1. Mr. Mabie Tells What to Read; 2. The Compromise of Silas Lapham; 3. James for the General Reader; 4. Misreading The House of Mirth; 5. The Comforts of Romanticism; Epilogue: Reading Up into the Twenty-first Century; Appendix A: The Mabie Canon; Appendix B: "Novels Descriptive of American Life"; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457828503321 |
Blair Amy L. <1972-> | ||
Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sons and daughters of self-made men [[electronic resource] ] : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature / / Mary Paniccia Carden |
Autore | Carden Mary Paniccia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature Group identity in literature Self-determination, National, in literature Success in literature Ideology in literature Patriarchy in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-8387-5789-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456955103321 |
Carden Mary Paniccia | ||
Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Sons and daughters of self-made men [[electronic resource] ] : improvising gender, place, nation in American literature / / Mary Paniccia Carden |
Autore | Carden Mary Paniccia |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (255 p.) |
Disciplina | 810.9/35873 |
Soggetto topico |
American literature - History and criticism
National characteristics, American, in literature Group identity in literature Self-determination, National, in literature Success in literature Ideology in literature Patriarchy in literature |
ISBN | 0-8387-5789-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780953303321 |
Carden Mary Paniccia | ||
Lewisburg, Pa., : Bucknell University Press, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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