From The way to wealth to The gospel of wealth
Subtitle: the transformation in the concept of success in American literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser
By: Zennure Köseman
Publisher: Academica Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bethesda
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
ISBN-13: 9781936320523
Subjects: Wealth in literature; Chance in literature; Social change in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Success in literature; Self-reliance in literature; Ethics in literature; Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature; Social values in literature; Moral conditions in literature
Other titles: Transformation in the concept of success in American literature from Benjamin Franklin to Theodore Dreiser
Notes: Based on the author's thesis -- Acknowl. (p.    ).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The way to success in the late colonial era, early American Republic, and the romantic period ; The meaning of success; Means of achieving success; Self-reliance; Ethical behavior; title: The means and meaning of rags to riches during the Reconstruction era. Social and historical developments in American society after the Civil War; Horatio Alger: ragged Dick: or street life in New York; Success redefined; Means of achieving success; Reliance on chance; Marginalization of ethical behavior; title: The gospel of success in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era; Success reformulated; Means of achieving success; Reliance on and acceptance by others; Moral demise; title: Conclusion.