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The Fear of Sinking

The Fear of Sinking The American Success Formula in the Gilded Age

1st Edition

Hardback (27 Nov 1996)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Kilmer (Marian College) analyzes the national preoccupation with success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She looks at success stories in contemporary newspapers and the popular press, and examines origins of the Cinderella "rags-to-riches" story in oral tradition. For scholars in mass communications, literature, popular culture, history,

Book information

ISBN: 9780870499395
Publisher: The University of Tennessee Press
Imprint: The University of Tennessee Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 302.14097309034
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 230
Weight: 635g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 25mm