Creating the college man American mass magazines and middle-class manhood, 1890-1915 / [electronic resource] :
- 作者： Clark, Daniel A. (Daniel Andrew), 1967-
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- 其他題名：
- Studies in American thought and culture
- 出版： Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press
- 叢書名： Studies in American thought and culture
- 主題： Education, Higher--United States--Sociological aspects--History. , Male college students--Press coverage--United States--History. , Middle-class men--Press coverage--United States--History.
- ISBN： 9780299235338 (electronic bk.) 、 9780299235345 (pbk.)
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CGU
- 資料類型: 電子書
- 內容註: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-246) and index.
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- 系統號： 005100940 | 機讀編目格式
館藏資訊
How did a college education become so vital to American notions of professional and personal advancement? Reared on the ideal of the self-made man, American men had long rejected the need for college. But in the early twentieth century this ideal began to change as white men born in the U.S. faced a barrage of new challenges, among them a stultifying bureaucracy and growing competition in the workplace from an influx of immigrants and women. At this point a college education appealed to young men as an attractive avenue to success in a dawning corporate age. Accessible at first almost exclusively to middle-class white males, college funneled these aspiring elites toward a more comfortable and certain future in a revamped construction of the American dream. In Creating the College Man Daniel A. Clark argues that the dominant mass media of the era—popular magazines such as Cosmopolitan and the Saturday Evening Post—played an integral role in shaping the immediate and long-term goals of this select group of men. In editorials, articles, fiction, and advertising, magazines depicted the college man as simultaneously cultured and scientific, genteel and athletic, polished and tough. Such depictions underscored the college experience in powerful and attractive ways that neatly united the incongruous strains of American manhood and linked a college education to corporate success.