Author:
Blum, Beth, author.
ImprintNew York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Descriptionxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Note:Introduction -- Self-Help's Portable Wisdom -- A Bouvard and Pécuchet: Flaubert's D.I.Y. Dystopia -- Negative Visualization -- Joyce for Life -- Modernism Without Tears -- Practicality Hunger -- Coda: The Shadow University of Self-Help.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"Samuel Beckett as a guru for business executives? James Joyce as a guide to living a good life? The notion of notoriously experimental authors sharing a shelf with self-help books might seem far-fetched, yet a hidden history of rivalry, influence, and imitation links these two worlds. In The Self-Help Compulsion, Beth Blum reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present day."-- Provided by publisher.
