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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Pleasing to the I
• Author: Uwe Juras
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 454
• EAN: 9783631523957
• ISBN: 9783631523957
• ID: 10026277
• Publisher: Peter Lang GmbH
• Weight: 610 g
• Dimensions: 150 × 211 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2006

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