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Investigating the enduring quality of Horatio Alger's political theories, this historical study shows how his ideas of hard work tempered by virtue's rewards struck a chord during the economic transformations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
| כותר |
The fictional republic : Horatio Alger and American political discourse / Carol Nackenoff. [electronic resource] |
|---|---|
| מוציא לאור |
New York Oxford University Press |
| שנה |
2023 |
| הערות |
Previously issued in print: 1994. Includes bibliographical references and index. English |
| הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Contents Preface 1 Allegory of the Republic: On Interpretation and Method 2 A Unitarian Project for Moral Guidance 3 Republican Rites of Passage: Character and the Battle for Youth 4 Guidebooks for Survival in an Industrializing Economy 5 Saved From the Factory 6 Technology, Organizations, Corporations, and Capitalists 7 Natural Aristocracy in a Democracy: Authority, Power, and Politics 8 Money, Price, and Value: Alger's Interventions in the Market 9 Levelling and Its Limits 10 Reading Alger: Searching for Alger's Audience in the Literary Marketplace 11 The Mass Fiction Writer As Producer and Consumer: Power, Powerlessness, and Gender12 Culture Wars 13 The Fictional Republic: Alger's Appeal to the American Political Imagination Notes References Name Index Subject Index |
| סדרה |
Oxford scholarship online |
| היקף החומר |
1 online resource (377 p.) |
| שפה |
אנגלית |
| מספר מערכת |
997010710925605171 |
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