Apostles of the self-made man / by John G. Cawelti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cawelti, John G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Success.

Physical Description:

xiv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1965]

Contents:

Introduction: the meaning of the self-made man.

I. Natural aristocracy and the new republic: the idea of mobility in the thought of Franklin and Jefferson.

II. The age of the self-made man.

III. Self-improvement and self-culture: Ralph Waldo Emerson.

IV. From rags to respectability: Horatio Alger.

V. The self-made man and industrial America: the portrayal of mobility in the nineteenth-century novel.

VI. Philosophers of success.

VII. Dream or rat race: success in the twentieth century.

VIII. Individual success and the community: John Dewey's philosophy of success.

Notes:

Originated as thesis, University of Iowa.

Includes index.

"Bibliographical notes": pages 259-271.

OCLC:

374537