Material ambitions : self-help and Victorian literature / Rebecca Richardson.

"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 demon...

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Main Author: Richardson, Rebecca, 1983- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
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