Upward Mobility and the Common Good : : Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State /

Upward Mobility and the Common Good : : Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State / / Bruce Robbins.

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We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward...

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Robbins, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • PREFACE. Someone Else'S Life
  • Introduction. The Fairy Godmother
  • Chapter One. Erotic Patronage: Rousseau, Constant, Balzac, Stendhal
  • Chapter Two. How to be a Benefactor Without Any Money
  • Chapter Three. "It'S Not Your Fault": Therapy and Irresponsibility
  • Chapter Four. A Portrait of the Artist as a Rentier
  • Chapter Five. The Health Visitor
  • Chapter Six. On the Persistence of Anger in the Institutions of Caring
  • Conclusion. The Luck of Birth and the International Division of Labor
  • Notes
  • Index

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