Upward Mobility and the Common Good

Upward Mobility and the Common Good

Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State

by Bruce Robbins

328 pages· 2010· ISBN 9780691146638
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Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Emily Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, Bruce Robbins shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor.

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