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02428aam a2200373 i 4500 001 AD403506B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230302011926 008 210707t20212021mdua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021011251 020 $a 1421441969 020 $a 9781421441962 020 $a 1421441977 020 $a 9781421441979 035 $a (OCoLC)1237750608 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d JHE $d CDX $d YDX $d EAU $d YUS $d PAU $d JNA $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PR468 S43 R53 2021 100 1 $a Richardson, Rebecca, $d 1983- $e author. 245 10 $a Material ambitions : $b self-help and Victorian literature / $c Rebecca Richardson. 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2021. 300 $a x, 255 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-244) and index. 520 $a "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 it as well"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 00 $t Placing and Displacing Ambition: Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes Bung. $g 6. $t Forming the Ambitious Individual in Samuel Smiley's Self-Help -- $g 2. $t Expanding the Story of Ambition, Work, and Health in a Limited World: Harriet Martina's Economic and Illness Writing -- $g 3. $t Enabling the Self-Help Narrative in Dinah Craig's John Halifax, Gentleman -- $g 4. $t "At What Point This Ambition Transgresses the Boundary of Virtue": From Thackeray's Barry Lyndon to Vanity Fair -- $g 5. $t Individuating Ambitions in a Competitive System: Trollope's Autobiography and The Three Clerks -- $g 6. $t Placing and Displacing Ambition: Miles Franklin's My Brilliant Career and My Career Goes Bung. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 19th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Ambition in literature. 650 0 $a Conduct of life in literature. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781421441986 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230405011621.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=AD403506B8CA11EDAC6855BD37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search