Football Wishes and Fashion Fair Dreams: Class and the Problem of Upward Mobility in Contemporary U.S. Literature and Culture

<p>Through an analysis of contemporary films, novels, comics, and other popular texts, my dissertation argues that upward class mobility, as the progress narrative through which the American Dream has solidified itself in literary and cultural convention, is based on a false logic of "sel...

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Main Author: Appel, Sara Elizabeth
Other Authors: Ferraro, Thomas
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10161/5808