The gold standard and the logic of naturalism : American literature at the turn of the century /
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 phen...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
©1987.
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| Series: | New historicism ;
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppvww |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The writer's mark
- Sister Carrie's popular economy
- Dreiser's financier: the man of business as a man of letters
- Romance and real estate
- The phenomenology of contract
- The gold standard and the logic of naturalism
- Corporate fiction
- Action and accident: photography and writing.