| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 364 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
OUP E-Books
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| 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 |
| Analysis |
English fiction |
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United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 336-353) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899 -- Political and social views
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Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80010363
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Alger, Horatio, Jr., 1832-1899. fast (OCoLC)fst01897476 |
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century
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Political fiction, American -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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Political and social views.
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Political fiction, American.
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Politics and literature.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
93018732 |
| ISBN |
1423764862 |
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9781423764861 |
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1602566194 |
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9781602566194 |
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9786610443239 |
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6610443238 |
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