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1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-287) and index. |
Contents |
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. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Sex in literature.
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Sex in literature. |
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Mentoring in literature.
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Mentoring in literature. |
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Welfare state in literature.
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Welfare state in literature. |
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Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Fiction. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Chronological Term |
19th century |
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1800-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Print version: Robbins, Bruce. Upward mobility and the common good. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691049878 0691049874 (DLC) 2006050255 (OCoLC)71173912 |
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9781400827657 (electronic book) |
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1400827655 (electronic book) |
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9780691049878 (alkaline paper) |
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0691049874 (alkaline paper) |
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9780691049885 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0691049882 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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