Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature Richardson Rebecca
Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature Richardson Rebecca Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In Material Ambitions,…
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Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian Literature Richardson Rebecca
Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. In Material Ambitions, Rebecca Richardson explores this phenomenon in light of the under-studied reception history of Samuel Smiles's 1859 publication, Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways that previous generations had not.
A compilation of vignettes about captains of industry, artists, and inventors who persevered through failure and worked tirelessly to achieve success in their respective fields, Self-Help links individual ambition to the growth of the nation.Contextualizing Smiles's work in a tradition of Renaissance self-fashioning, eighteenth-century advice books, and inspirational biography, Richardson argues that the
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