The self-help compulsion : searching for advice in modern literature /

"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...

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Author / Creator: Blum, Beth (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
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