Material ambitions : self-help and Victorian literature /
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| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Forming the Ambitious Individual in Samuel Smiles's Self-Help
- 2. Expanding the Story of Ambition, Work, and Health in a Limited World: Harriet Martineau's Economic and Illness Writing
- 3. Enabling the Self-Help Narrative in Dinah Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman
- 4. "At What Point This Ambition Transgresses the Boundary of Virtue": From Thackeray's Barry Lyndon to Vanity Fair
- 5. Individuating Ambitions in a Competitive System: Trollope's Autobiography and The Three Clerks
- 6. Placing and Displacing Ambition: Miles Franklins My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes Bung.