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  1. Upward Mobility and the Common Good
    Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
    Author: Robbins, Bruce
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    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... more

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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 Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, ...

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691146638; 9781400827657 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Scope: 324 p.
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  2. Upward Mobility and the Common Good
    Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State
    Author: Robbins, Bruce
    Published: 2009
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    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... more

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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 Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691146638
    Scope: Online-Ressource (324 p.)
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    Contents; Preface: Someone Else's Life; Introduction: The Fairy Godmother; CHAPTER ONE: Erotic Patronage: Rousseau, Constant, Balzac, Stendhal; CHAPTER TWO: How to Be a Benefactor without Any Money; CHAPTER THREE: "It's not your fault": Therapy and Irresponsibility from Dreiser to Doctorow; CHAPTER FOUR: A Portrait of the Artist as a Rentier; CHAPTER FIVE: The Health Visitor; CHAPTER SIX: On the Persistence of Anger in the Institutions of Caring; Conclusion: The Luck of Birth and the International Division of Labor; Notes; Index;