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Material Ambitions
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Author : Rebecca Richardson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Material Ambitions written by Rebecca Richardson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
What the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism. Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation. Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the burgeoning self-help genre of the Victorian era offered a narrative structure that linked individual success with collective success in a one-to-one relationship. Advocating for a broader cultural account of the ambitious hero narrative, Richardson argues that reading these biographies and self-help texts alongside fictional accounts of driven people complicates the morality tale that writers like Smiles took pains to invoke. In chapters featuring the works of Harriet Martineau, Dinah Craik, Thackeray, Trollope, and Miles Franklin, Richardson demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition by suggesting where it runs up against the limits of an individual's energy and ability, where it turns into competition, or where it risks upsetting a socio-ecological system of finite resources. The upward mobility plots of John Halifax, Gentleman or Vanity Fair suggest the dangers of zero-sum thinking, particularly evidenced by contemporary preoccupations with Malthusian and Darwinian discourses. Intertwining the methodologies of disability studies and ecocriticism, Material Ambitions persuasively unmasks the longstanding myth that ambitious individualism can overcome disadvantageous systematic and structural conditions.
Material Ambitions
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Author : Rebecca Richardson
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2021-11-30
Material Ambitions written by Rebecca Richardson and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-30 with History categories.
"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"--
Moral Visions And Material Ambitions
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Author : A. Kristen Foster
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2004
Moral Visions And Material Ambitions written by A. Kristen Foster and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Business & Economics categories.
No single vision for the future of America existed after the Revolution. In light of social and economic changes, America's scope shifted from community-mindedness, the very heart of the republican ideal, to economic individualism. In Moral Visions and Material Ambitions, A. Kristen Foster describes how eager young entrepreneurs in Philadelphia manipulated America's moral vision of a classical republic to facilitate their own material ambitions, fostered by the free market economy that arose between 1776 and 1836. As market developments changed economic relationships in the city, men and women used the Revolution's republican language to help explain what was happening to them, and in the process they helped redefine class structure in Philadelphia. This study explores the ways Philadelphians used the Revolution and its powerful language of liberty and equality to impose meaning on their lives, as an expanding market irreversibly changed social and economic relationships in their city, and eventually the rest of the country.
Territorial Ambitions And The Gardens Of Versailles
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Author : Chandra Mukerji
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-09-25
Territorial Ambitions And The Gardens Of Versailles written by Chandra Mukerji and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-09-25 with History categories.
In seventeenth-century France, land took on new importance for the practice of politics and rituals of court life. In her major new book, Chandra Mukerji highlights the connections between the two seemingly disparate activities of engineering and garden design. She shows how, at Versailles in particular, the royal park showcased French skills in using nature and art to design a distinctively French landscape and create a naturalized political territoriality. She challenges the association of state power with social and legal structures alone and demonstrates the importance for Louis XIV and his state of a controlled physical site, a demarcated French territory within the wider European geo-political continent.
Dhew Publication
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Dhew Publication written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
Sex Roles
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Author : Helen S. Astin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
Sex Roles written by Helen S. Astin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Sex differences (Psychology) categories.
"The bibliography covers literature originating in investigations published both here and abroad and is directed toward social and behavioral scientists." Selected journal articles (346), books (54), and book chapters (49), published 1960-1972. Topical arrangement. Entries include bibliographical information, keywords, and abstracts. Author, subject indexes.
La Joven Moderna In Interwar Argentina
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Author : Cecilia Tossounian
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Release Date : 2019-12-11
La Joven Moderna In Interwar Argentina written by Cecilia Tossounian and has been published by University Press of Florida this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-11 with History categories.
In this book, Cecilia Tossounian reconstructs different representations of modern femininity from 1920s and 1930s Argentina, a complex period in which the country saw prosperity and economic crisis, a growing cosmopolitan population, the emergence of consumer culture, and the development of nationalism. Tossounian analyzes how these popular images of la joven moderna—the modern girl—helped shape Argentina’s emerging national identity. Tossounian looks at visual and written portrayals of young womanhood in magazines, newspapers, pulp fiction, advertisements, music, films, and other media. She identifies and discusses four new types of young urban women: the flapper, the worker, the sportswoman, and the beauty contestant. She shows that these diverse figures, defined by social class, highlight the tensions between gender, nation, and modernity in interwar Argentina. Arguing that images of modern young women symbolized fears of the country’s moral decadence as well as hopes of national progress and civilization, La Joven Moderna in Interwar Argentina reveals that women were at the center of a public debate about modernity and its consequences. This book highlights the important but underappreciated role of gendered figures and popular culture in the ways Argentine citizens imagined themselves and their country during a formative period of cultural and social renewal.
The Preacher And His Place
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Author : David Hummell Greer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Preacher And His Place written by David Hummell Greer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Preaching categories.
The Preacher And His Place
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Author : Bp. David Hummell Greer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Preacher And His Place written by Bp. David Hummell Greer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Preaching categories.
The International Ambitions Of Mao And Nehru
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Author : Andrew Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-12-29
The International Ambitions Of Mao And Nehru written by Andrew Kennedy and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-29 with Political Science categories.
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather than accept, the international structures that surround their states? In The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy answers this question through in-depth studies of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru. Drawing on international relations theory and psychological research, Kennedy offers a new theoretical explanation for bold leadership in foreign policy, one that stresses the beliefs that leaders develop about the 'national efficacy' of their states. He shows how this approach illuminates several of Mao and Nehru's most important military and diplomatic decisions, drawing on archival evidence and primary source materials from China, India, the United States and the United Kingdom. A rare blend of theoretical innovation and historical scholarship, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is a fascinating portrait of how foreign policy decisions are made.