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Material Ambitions

Rebecca Richardson · 2021

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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 problematized it as well"--

Book details

Year
2021
Language
English
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Editions
3
Pages
280
ISBN
9781421441979

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