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The gold standard and the logic of naturalism / Walter Benn Michaels.
LIBRA PS374.N29 M5 1987
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Van Pelt Library PS374.N29 M55 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Michaels, Walter Benn
- Series:
- New historicism
- The New historicism : studies in cultural poetics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- Naturalism in literature.
- Economics in literature.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Production (Economic theory) in literature.
- Capitalism and literature.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 248 pages ; 22 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, [1987]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0520059816
- 0520059824
- OCLC:
- 59162459
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