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The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse Book

The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse
The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse, Investigating the persistence and place of the formulas of Horatio Alger in American politics, The Fictional Republic reassesses the Alger story in its Gilded Age context. Carol Nackenoff argues that Alger was a keen observer of the dislocations an, The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse has a rating of 3 stars
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The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse, Investigating the persistence and place of the formulas of Horatio Alger in American politics, The Fictional Republic reassesses the Alger story in its Gilded Age context. Carol Nackenoff argues that Alger was a keen observer of the dislocations an, The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse
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  • The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse
  • Written by author Carol Nackenoff
  • Published by Oxford University Press, USA, April 1994
  • Investigating the persistence and place of the formulas of Horatio Alger in American politics, The Fictional Republic reassesses the Alger story in its Gilded Age context. Carol Nackenoff argues that Alger was a keen observer of the dislocations an
  • Investigating the persistence and place of the formulas of Horatio Alger in American politics, The Fictional Republic reassesses the Alger story in its Gilded Age context. Carol Nackenoff argues that Alger was a keen observer of the dislocations an
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Preface
1Allegory of the Republic: On Interpretation and Method3
2A Unitarian Project for Moral Guidance12
3Republican Rites of Passage: Character and the Battle for Youth33
4Guidebooks for Survival in an Industrializing Economy53
5Saved From the Factory78
6Technology, Organizations, Corporations, and Capitalists93
7Natural Aristocracy in a Democracy: Authority, Power, and Politics110
8Money, Price, and Value: Alger's Interventions in the Market133
9Levelling and Its Limits162
10Reading Alger: Searching for Alger's Audience in the Literary Marketplace181
11The Mass Fiction Writer As Producer and Consumer: Power, Powerlessness, and Gender206
12Culture Wars227
13The Fictional Republic: Alger's Appeal to the American Political Imagination261
Notes272
References336
Name Index354
Subject Index357


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