The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature / Beth Blum.
The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature / Beth Blum.
The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature / Beth Blum.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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G 2020/4480
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction -- Self Help's Portable Wisdom -- Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's DIY. Dystopia -- Negative Visualization -- Joyce for Life -- Modernism Without Tears -- Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self Help.
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Publisher
New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
"Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use t...
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The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature / Beth Blum.
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Searching for advice in modern literature
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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©2020
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G 2020/4480
Record Identifier
74VKavGBEkGO
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKavGBEkGO
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ISBN
0231194927
9780231194921
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809.93353
MMS ID
991024357393902626
