Horatio Alger: Gender and Success in the Gilded Age Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom

Name: Horatio Alger: Gender and Success in the Gilded Age Ragged Dick and Tattered Tom
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ISBN: 9781881089667

ISBN-10: 1881089665

ISBN-13: 9781881089667

Edition: 2001

Authors: Charles Orson Cook

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The Horatio Alger myth has worked itself deeply into American culture. Even those who have never read one of his stories and many who could not identify him have come to believe that honest, industrious adolescents can easily rise from poverty to respectability. That conviction has reinforced notions of capitalism and the Protestant work ethic. It has also strengthened a sense of nave optimism that in America things will always get better. The two stories here, one of which violates convention by featuring a heroine rather than a hero, invite a close examination of how Alger's fictional protagonists win out. Readers will discover that the often used phrase rags-to-riches does not…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/8/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 6.05" wide x 9.00" long x 0.38" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English



Introduction


Tattered Tom


Ragged Dick