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  1. Upward mobility and the common good
    toward a literary history of the welfare state
    Erschienen: c2007
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J

    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals... mehr

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    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ish

     

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  2. Upward mobility and the common good
    toward a literary history of the welfare state
    Autor*in: Robbins, Bruce
    Erschienen: ©2007
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1400827655; 9781400827657
    Schlagworte: Sexualité dans la littérature; Mentorat dans la littérature; État providence dans la littérature; Roman / 20e siècle / Histoire et critique; Roman / 19e siècle / Histoire et critique; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism; Sex in literature; Mentoring in literature; Welfare state in literature; Fiction; Fiction; Sozialer Aufstieg <Motiv>; Erotik <Motiv>; Literatur
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 304 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index

    Someone else's life -- Introduction: The Fairy Godmother -- "Advancement, of course" -- "I don't want to be patronised" -- Description of the chapters -- Erotic patronage: Rousseau, Constant, Balzac, Stendhal -- Older women -- Interest, disinterest, and boredom -- The acquisition of the donor -- " ... something a bit like love" -- How to be a benefactor without any money -- "My brother's body lies dead and naked ..." -- Saving boys: Horatio Alger -- "I wouldn't keep a pig in it myself": Great Expectations -- "It's not your fault": therapy and irresponsibility from Dreiser to Doctorow -- Styles of radical antistatism: D.S. Miller and Christopher Lasch -- Loyality and blame in Dreiser's The Financier -- " ... take hospitals, the cops and garbage collection": Budd Schulberg's What Makes Sammy Run? -- "I like ... to be reliable": E.L. Doctorow's Billy Bathgate -- A portrait of the artist as a rentier -- "Where are your nobles now?": Bohemia in Kipps, My Brilliant Career, and Trilby -- "I don't think I should be unhappy in the workhouse": George Gissing, Perry Anderson, and the Unproductive Classes -- "You're a town hall wallah, aren't you?": Pygmalion and Room at the Top -- The health visitor -- Dumpy: Carolyn Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman -- Personal: Richard Rodriguez's Hunger of Memory -- Help: Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing" and Alan Sillitoe's "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner" -- "I hate lawyers. I just work for them": Erin Brockovich -- On the persistence of anger in the institutions of caring -- Anger -- Caring: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go -- Rising in sociology: Pierre Bourdieu, Paul Willis, and Richard Sennett -- Code: anger, caring and merit -- Conclusion -- The luck of birth and the international division of labor

    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ish

  3. Upward mobility and the common good
    toward a literary history of the welfare state
    Autor*in: Robbins, Bruce
    Erschienen: 2007
    Verlag:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals... mehr

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Bronte, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ish.

     

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    Quelle: Verbundkataloge
    Sprache: Englisch
    Medientyp: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400827657; 1400827655
    RVK Klassifikation: HT 1691 ; HU 1691
    Schlagworte: Literatur; Soziale Wohlfahrt; Lebensqualität
    Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 304 pages)
    Bemerkung(en):

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index