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Article: Character Is Capital: Successful Manuals and Manhood in Gilded Age America.
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- Business History
- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Frank Cass & Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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JUDY HILKEY, (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp.210; illus. H/back ISBN 0 8078 2353 8, $39.95; p/back ISBN 0 8078 4658 9, $17.95)
This book on the cultural history of the success manual in Gilded Age America is a revision of the author's 1980 Ph.D. dissertation. It is a contribution to the growing body of scholarship on ideals of manhood in nineteenth-century America, focusing particularly upon the period 1870 to 1910. It examines the literary genre of the success manual in the context of a period of great economic and social change in the United States, when opportunities for the independent entrepreneur and 'self-made' man were fast ...
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Encyclopedia entry: Gilded Age
The Oxford Companion to United States History;
700+ words
...Gilded Age The quarter century between the end of ... Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain, The Gilded Age .The book's satirical, critical tone ... history to have a pejorative title, the Gilded Age came to be remembered as a time of corrupt ...
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