Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

by Bruce Robbins

Book Overview

We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned with the self-making of self-reliant individuals rather than with any collective interest. In Upward Mobility and the Common Good, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691049874
• ISBN13: 9780691049878
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.3"