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Course Description

Instructor: Adam Rose.  For better or worse, one version of the American Dream has long equated “success” with “material wealth”. In this course, we will explore this long-standing equation by closely reading and discussing important fictional and non-fictional works about wealth from America’s (in) famous Gilded Age at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. Texts will include: Horatio Alger’s Ragged Dick and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby as well as Andrew Carnegie’s “The Gospel of Wealth” and Thorsten Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class. Course code: BASC80153 Philosophy

Course Outline

Reading List

Alger, Horatio. Ragged Dick and Mark, The Match Boy (Wildside).
ISBN-13: 978-1434454157.

Carnegie, Andrew. “The Gospel of Wealth” and Other Essays (Penguin Classics).
ISBN-13: 978-0143039891.

Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class (Oxford’s World Classics).
ISBN-13: 978-0199552580.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby (Scribner).
ISBN-13: 978-0743273565.

Notes

Please read Alger’s Ragged Dick before the first class.

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