Gold Standard & Logic (Paper)

1. Auflage 1992
ISBN: 978-0-520-05982-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 257 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 272 g

Reihe: The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michaels, Walter Benn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Benn Michaels teaches English at Johns Hopkins University.