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Reinterpreting novels by figures such as Balzac, Stendhal, Emily Brontë, Dickens, Dreiser, Wells, Doctorow, and Ishiguro, along with a number of films, Bruce Robbins shows how deeply the material and erotic desires of upwardly mobile characters are intertwined with the aid they receive from some sort of benefactor or mentor.Robbins, Bruce is the author of 'Upward Mobility & the Common Good Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State', published 2007 under ISBN 9780691049878 and ISBN 0691049874.
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