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Subtitle: Self-Help and Victorian Literature
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781421441962
Description: "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"--