The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political DiscourseOxford University Press, 14 Απρ 1994 - 13 σελίδες 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 and economic pitfalls of the rapidly industrializing nation, and devised a set of symbols that addressed anxieties about power and identity. As classes were increasingly divided by wealth, life chances, residence space, and culture, Alger maintained that Americans could still belong to one estate. The story of the youth who faces threats to his virtue, power, independence, and identity stands as an allegory of the American Republic. Nackenoff examines how the Alger formula continued to shape political discourse in Reagan's America and beyond. |
Περιεχόμενα
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| 12 | |
Character and the Battle for Youth | 33 |
4 Guidebooks for Survival in an Industrializing Economy | 53 |
5 Saved From the Factory | 78 |
6 Technology Organizations Corporations and Capitalists | 93 |
Authority Power and Politics | 110 |
Algers Interventions in the Market | 133 |
Searching for Algers Audience in the Literary Marketplace | 181 |
Power Powerlessness and Gender | 206 |
12 Culture Wars | 227 |
Algers Appeal to the American Political Imagination | 261 |
Notes | 272 |
References | 336 |
Name Index | 354 |
Subject Index | 357 |
Άλλες εκδόσεις - Προβολή όλων
The Fictional Republic: Horatio Alger and American Political Discourse Carol Nackenoff Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1994 |
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Σελίδα 154 - We are offered, by the terms of this sale, six months' credit; and that perhaps has induced some of us to attend it, because we cannot spare the ready money, and hope now to be fine without it. But, ah, think what you do when you run in debt; you give to another power over your liberty. If you cannot pay at the time, you will be ashamed to see your creditor; you will be in fear when you speak to him, you will make poor pitiful sneaking excuses, and by degrees come to lose your veracity, and sink...
Σελίδα 76 - European conditions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these, in turn despise the Republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice we breed the two great classes — tramps and millionaires.
Σελίδα 334 - Text means tissue; but whereas hitherto we have always taken this tissue as a product, a ready-made veil, behind which lies, more or less hidden, meaning (truth), we are now emphasizing, in the tissue, the generative idea that the text is made, is worked out in a perpetual interweaving; lost in this tissue — this texture — the subject unmakes himself, like a spider dissolving in the constructive secretions of its web.
Σελίδα 136 - Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify ; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard, and compelled to sink or swim for himself. In all my acquaintance I never knew a man to be drowned who was worth the saving.
Σελίδα 35 - The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman.
Σελίδα 115 - ... country, and the practice of remaining, or of assembling, in the large towns, renders universal suffrage doubly oppressive to the citizens of the latter. The natives of other countries bring with them the prejudices of another and an antagonist state of society; or what is still worse, their reaction; and it is a painful and humiliating fact, that several of the principal places of this country, are, virtually, under the control of...
Σελίδα 35 - When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse.
Σελίδα 163 - No matter what may be the fortunes or the expectations of a young man, he has no right to live a life of idleness. In a world so full as this of incitements to exertion and of rewards for achievement, idleness is the most absurd of absurdities and the most shameful of shames.
Σελίδα 37 - WHEN Cataline attempted to overthrow the liberties of Rome, he began by corrupting the young men of the city, and forming them for deeds of daring and crime. In this, he acted with keen discernment of what constitutes the strength and safety of a community — the virtue and intelligence of its youth — especially of its young men. This class of persons, has, with much propriety, been denominated the flower of a country — the rising hope of the church and society.
Σελίδα 178 - In democracies private citizens see men rising from their ranks and attaining wealth and power in a few years; that spectacle excites their astonishment and their envy; they wonder how he who was their equal yesterday has today won the right to command them.
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