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The gold standard and the logic of naturalism :

Michaels, Walter Benn.

The gold standard and the logic of naturalism : American literature at the turn of the century / Walter Benn Michaels. - Berkeley : University of California Press, �1987. - 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages). - The New historicism : studies in cultural poetics ; [2] . - New historicism ; 2. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The writer's mark -- Sister Carrie's popular economy -- Dreiser's financier: the man of business as a man of letters -- Romance and real estate -- The phenomenology of contract -- The gold standard and the logic of naturalism -- Corporate fiction -- Action and accident: photography and writing. Introduction:

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. It imagines a literary history that must at the same time be social, economic, and legal; and it imagines a literature that, to be understood at all, must be understood both as a producer and a product of market capitalism.

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22573/cttt46sh JSTOR


1900-1999


American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Naturalism in literature.
Production (Economic theory) in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Capitalism and literature.
Economics in literature.
Historicism.
Naturalisme dans la litt�erature.
�Economie politique dans la litt�erature.
Capitalisme et litt�erature.
Roman am�ericain--Histoire et critique.--20e si�ecle
Consommation (�Economie politique) dans la litt�erature.
Production dans la litt�erature.
LITERARY CRITICISM--American--General.
American fiction.
Capitalism and literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Economics in literature.
Historicism.
Naturalism in literature.
Production (Economic theory) in literature.
Roman am�ericain--Histoire et critique.--20e si�ecle
Litt�erature am�ericaine--Th�emes, motifs.
Naturalisme (mouvement litt�eraire)


Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

PS374.N29 / M5 1987eb

813/.52/0912