Pleasing to the «I»
The Culture of Personality and Its Representations in Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald
©2006
Thesis
XIV,
444 Pages
Series:
Mainzer Studien zur Amerikanistik, Volume 50
Summary
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.
Details
- Pages
- XIV, 444
- Publication Year
- 2006
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783631523957
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- USA Roman Selbstbewusstsein (Motiv) Geschichte 1875-1925 Personage Identity Individuality Personality Character Self
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. XIV, 444 pp.
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