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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Michaels, Walter Benn, Author.

Series:

New historicism ; 2.

The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historicism.

Economics in literature.

Capitalism and literature.

Consumption (Economics) in literature.

Production (Economic theory) in literature.

Naturalism in literature.

American fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

American fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [1987]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION: THE WRITER'S MARK

1. SISTER CARRIE'S POPULAR ECONOMY

2. DREISER'S FINANCIER: THE MAN OF BUSINESS AS A MAN OF LETTERS

3. ROMANCE AND REAL ESTATE

4. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONTRACT

5. THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE LOGIC OF NATURALISM

6. CORPORATE FICTION

7. ACTION AND ACCIDENT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING

INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786612355295

9780520908291

0520908295

9781282355293

1282355295

9780585161211

0585161216

OCLC:

630527806