TY  - BOOK
AU  - Uwe Juras
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Pleasing to the «I»
T2  - The Culture of Personality and Its Representations in Theodore Dreiser and F. Scott Fitzgerald
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100768
N2  - 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.
KW  - USA, Roman, Selbstbewusstsein (Motiv), Geschichte 1875-1925, Personage, Identity, Individuality, Personality, Character, Self
LA  - English
ER  -