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Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of Welfare State
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Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of Welfare State
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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
, Bruce Robbins completely overturns these assumptions to expose a hidden tradition of erotic social interdependence at the heart of the literary canon.