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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRobbins, Bruce
_eautore
245 1 0 _aUpward Mobility and the Common Good :
_bToward a Literary History of the Welfare State /
_cBruce Robbins.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2007
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPREFACE. Someone Else'S Life --
_tIntroduction. The Fairy Godmother --
_tChapter One. Erotic Patronage: Rousseau, Constant, Balzac, Stendhal --
_tChapter Two. How to be a Benefactor Without Any Money --
_tChapter Three. "It'S Not Your Fault": Therapy and Irresponsibility --
_tChapter Four. A Portrait of the Artist as a Rentier --
_tChapter Five. The Health Visitor --
_tChapter Six. On the Persistence of Anger in the Institutions of Caring --
_tConclusion. The Luck of Birth and the International Division of Labor --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWe 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 Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon. Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Charlotte Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, Robbins shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor. In his view, Hannibal Lecter of The Silence of the Lambs becomes a key figure of social mobility in our time. Robbins argues that passionate and ambiguous relationships (like that between Lecter and Clarice Starling) carry the upward mobility story far from anyone's simple self-interest, whether the protagonist's or the mentor's. Robbins concludes that upward mobility stories have paradoxically helped American and European society make the transition from an ethic of individual responsibility to one of collective accountability, a shift that made the welfare state possible, but that also helps account for society's fascination with cases of sexual abuse and harassment by figures of authority.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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