the Civil War and World War I, David Leverenz maintains, the corporate transformation of American work created widespread desire for upward mobility along with widening class divisions. In his view, several significant narrative constructs, notably the daddy's girl and the daddy's boy, emerge at the intersection between paternalist practices and more democratic possibilities for self-advancement. From Mark Twain's Laura Hawkins in "The Gilded Age to the protagonist of…
Author: David Leverenz · Original publisher: Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY, 2003)
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