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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"self-made man"”.
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Criticism of material success in the American novel
… concern in the American goal of success and the self-made man, still held out redeeming features as generally admirable. Arthur Mervyn discovers that to be self-made man is a demanding task requiring hard work and resistance of occasional temptations from evil persons. He chooses to return to …
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The Art of Self-Making: American Modernist Fiction and the Performances of Identity and Authorship
… relatedness of the authorial desire for textual self-representation visible in many works of American modernist fiction and the modern myth of the self-made man. I contend that the historical and cultural forces which shaped both phenomena in the latter half of the 19th and the first half of the …
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The Rhetoric Of The Hip Hop Hustler: Shifting Representations Of American Identity
… opportunity to rewrite the narrative of the Self-Made Man, a narrative that has historically been figured as white and masculine. The Self-Made Man is important to understandings of American identity because this figure has come to represent the ideal citizen-subject. To accurately account …
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The Novel of Business and the Business of the Novel: W.D. Howells' Examination of Prosperity Archetypes
… themselves are susceptible to the same romanticized economic ideals they disseminate. These novels do not correct the problematic behaviors that popular writing likely had a role in inspiring. They certainly do not resolve the seemingly contradictory values within the publishing industry. …
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Across Lands: Double Consciousness and Negotiating Identities in Early Chinese American Literature, 1847-1910s
… what I call 'across lands theory' focuses on the self-representations of Chinese and mixed race immigrants in their struggle to acquire a place in the United States as well as other countries while simultaneously coping with anti-Chinese regulatory laws. While they negotiate their identities …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
… speaker of the Irish house of commons. He was a self made man and was reputedly the wealthiest man in Ireland. Conolly was a legend in his own lifetime and one petitioner wrote ‘whatsoever you undertake, God prospers’. As speaker it became necessary to have a residence close to the capital and he …
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Film Noir as the Sovereign-Image of Empire: Cynicism, White Male Biopolitics, and the Neoliberal Cinematic Apparatus
… images of a pathological entrepreneur of the self who is not ashamed to exhibit his wounded private life as the source of his singular market value. I claim, however, that even in his fully developed contemporary form in which his classical predecessors trauma induced shamelessness turns into …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the maritime and western frontiers, and in doing so, influenced and reflected American nation-building and the development of concepts of liberty, masculinity and nationhood in the early republic and throughout the Jacksonian era. To …