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- The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century
- Book
- 1987
- Published by: University of California Press
- Series: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xii-xiii
- Introduction: The Writer's Mark
- pp. 1-28
- 1. Sister Carrie's Popular Economy
- pp. 29-58
- 3. Romance and Real Estate
- pp. 85-112
- 4. The Phenomenology of Contract
- pp. 113-136
- 6. Corporate Fiction
- pp. 181-214
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520908291
Related ISBN(s)
9780520059825
MARC Record
OCLC
44958494
Pages
257
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No