Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteent. Kopec, Kopec, Paperback**

Name: Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteent. Kopec, Kopec, Paperback**
Brand: The University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press

People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales allured Americans with visions of financial success, while events such as the Panics of 8 9, 837, 857, and 8 5 threatened them with sudden and devastating financial failure. The antebellum period's \""go-ahead\"" ethos encouraged individuals to form an identity amid this chaos by striving for financial success through risk-taking\u2014that is, to form a capitalist self. Andrew Kopec argues that writers of this era were not immune to this business turbulence rather, their responses to it shaped the development of American literature. By examining the public and private writings of well-known\n\nSink or Swim\nCapitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked;