Sink or swim : capitalist selfhood and nineteenth-century American literature /

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales allured Americans with visions of financial success, while events such as the Panics of 1819...

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Main Author: Kopec, Andrew (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2025].
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Evans: Library Stacks

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Call Number: PS217.E35 K67 2025
 
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