The gold standard and the logic of naturalism : American literature at the turn of the century / Walter Benn Michaels.

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Michaels, Walter Benn

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TextSeries: New historicism ; 2.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �1987.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 248 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520908291
0520908295
0585161216
9780585161211
0520059816
9780520059818
0520059824
9780520059825
1282355295
9781282355293

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813/.52/0912 19

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PS374.N29 M5 1987eb

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Contents:

Introduction: 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.

Summary: 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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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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