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Blum, Beth

Summary: "Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes. As literary authors positioned themselves in opposition to people like Samuel Smiles and Dale Carnegie, readers turned to self-help for the promises of mobility, agency, and use that serious literature was reluctant to supply....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 809 BLU

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