Literature and consumption in nineteenth-century America / Nicole Maruo-Schröder, Christoph Ribbat, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Maruo-Schröder, Nicole, editor.

Ribbat, Christoph, editor.

Series:

Anglistik & Englischunterricht ; Band 182.

Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 0344-8266 ; Band 182

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg, [Germany] : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2014.

Language Note:

German

Summary:

It is time for a new approach to nineteenth-century interactions between literary texts and practices of consumption. Instead of treating antebellum America and the century's turn as two discrete periods, the editors aim for a more flexible framework. They propose reading Progressive Era classics side by side with literary and popular texts exploring - and feeding - the flow of commodities long before Theodore Dreiser portrayed department stores. Discussing the intricate relationships of mass consumption and literary representation, European and North American contributors focus on Nathaniel H

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Nicole Maruo-Schröder & Christoph Ribbat - Introduction: Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth- Century America; Katja Kanzler - Discourses of Production and Consumption in New England ''Factory Girl'' Literature; Nicole Maruo-Schröder - A ""Dish Offered to the Public"": The Business of Gender and Class in Nathaniel Hawthorne''s The House of the Seven Gables; Christoph Ribbat - ""Where Do You Get Your Daguerreotypes?"" Image, Text, Race, and a Nineteenth-Century Businessman

Klara Stephanie Szlezák - Sages and Souvenirs: The Origins of American Literary Tourism in Concord, MassachusettsArthur F. Redding - American Tourism and the Emergence of Mass Culture: Mark Twain''s The Innocents Abroad; William M. Decker - Consuming Europe: Daisy Miller and the Package Tour; Simone Knewitz - ""Try My Tivoli"": Conspicuous Consumption in William Dean Howells''s A Modern Instance; Eva Boesenberg - Sex and the City: Gender and Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction; Contributors'' Addresses

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF website (ebrary, viewed October 11, 2014).

ISBN:

9783825374730

3825374734