Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and ContextsPeter Lang, 1996 - 183 էջ Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts is a literary history that shows how the idea of America as the land of capitalist enterprise - where rewards are always commensurate with productivity - came to flourish in our national literature. Covering the colonial period, the early national period, and the Jacksonian period, this study examines a variety of writers, including many of our best early writers of fiction, who chronicle and celebrate - and sometimes condemn - the vision of America as the land of economic opportunity. |
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... condition of life , and compleatly prepared by education for defeating the competition of wealth and birth for public trusts . " 17 Note that Jefferson's focus is on a level playing field to ensure that men of ability are commensurately ...
... condition of life , and compleatly prepared by education for defeating the competition of wealth and birth for public trusts . " 17 Note that Jefferson's focus is on a level playing field to ensure that men of ability are commensurately ...
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... condition was abysmal . 11 Most manufacturing was still being done in homes or small shops , but factories were beginning to spring up in the cities . Working conditions at the new factories were brutal ; a thirteen hour day was common ...
... condition was abysmal . 11 Most manufacturing was still being done in homes or small shops , but factories were beginning to spring up in the cities . Working conditions at the new factories were brutal ; a thirteen hour day was common ...
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... condition , and Harry's religious conversion completes his suitability as a match for Georgiana . Toward the novel's ... conditions on land in America , Briggs is saying that the American economic dream has been basically lost and that ...
... condition , and Harry's religious conversion completes his suitability as a match for Georgiana . Toward the novel's ... conditions on land in America , Briggs is saying that the American economic dream has been basically lost and that ...
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TOWARDS WORK AND WEALTH | 11 |
Ben Franklin and the American Paradigm | 20 |
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