The Self-Help Compulsion: Searching for Advice in Modern Literature

The Self-Help Compulsion reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Beth Blum explores popular reading practices in which people turn to literature in search of practical advice alongside modern writers' rebukes of such instrumental purposes.

• | Author: Beth Blum
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: January 28, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 344 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0231194927
• | ISBN-13: 9780231194921