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Fortune, Fame, and Desire - Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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Fortune, Fame, and Desire - Promoting the Self in the Long Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, a widening set of
opportunities in the public sphere opened up for ambitious men and
women in the loosely structured stratum of "the middle class." Much
of the attention to the marketplace between 1820 and 1910 has
described entrepreneurship and the beginnings of a more
sophisticated economy, but not much has been paid to the
commodification of the self. This book sets out to explore the
promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political
flux of the nineteenth century. Its geography extends through New
England, New York, the new states of the Midwest, and the great
cities of the Mid-Atlantic, with an occasional trip to New Orleans,
San Francisco and Los Angeles. The approach is biographical, using
representative middle class figures to illuminate cultural and
social history. Aided by more cheaply produced print and the clamor
of the American public for entertainment both high and low brow,
the figures described in this book strove for fame, sometimes
achieved good fortune, and acted out desires for sexual pleasure,
political success, and achieving the ideal in society. In doing so
they questioned and rearranged the ideas of the early Republic.
Poised between the dying class structure of the late eighteenth
century and the rise of a more hierarchical one in the early
twentieth, they took advantage of a society in flux to make their
mark on American culture.
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