Material Ambitions

Material Ambitions

Author: Rebecca Richardson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1421441969

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"The book traces the early history of the self-help genre and the literary depiction of ambition in Victorian British fiction. Stories of hardworking characters who bring themselves out of rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In chapters featuring the works of novelists, the author demonstrates that Victorian fiction dramatized ambition and problematized it as well"--