Pleasing to the I : The Culture of Personality and Its Representations in Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald
by
Uwe Juras
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik
ISBN-10
3631523955
ISBN-13
9783631523957
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 30th, 2006
Print length
454 Pages
Weight
610 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.10 x 2.70 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: from c 1900 -ELT background & reference material
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This book discusses how Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald alongside other novelists enforced in their usage and interpretation of the term «personality» a newly emerging vision of self in American society. This vision was other-directed: many Americans meant to impress their social surroundings through consciously cultivating personality as a social stimulus value, which they hoped would ceaselessly further their social station. Anticipating the discourses in other cultural forms, the early twentieth-century American novelists warned that individuals’ repeated endeavors to define themselves outwardly would inevitably lead to identity loss and depression.
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