| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899 -- Political and social views.
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Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899. |
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Political and social views. |
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Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899.
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Alger, Horatio, 1832-1899 -- Political and social views. |
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Political fiction, American -- History and criticism.
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Political fiction, American. |
| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
| Indexed Term |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Nackenoff, Carol. Fictional republic. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994 019507923X (DLC) 93018732 (OCoLC)27768396 |
| ISBN |
1423764862 (electronic book) |
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9781423764861 (electronic book) |
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1602566194 |
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9781602566194 |
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019507923X (Cloth) |
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9780195079234 |
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