Surveyors of customs [electronic resource] : American literature as cultural analysis / Joel Pfister.
Pfister, Joel, author.
2016
PS169.N35 P55 2016eb
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Title Surveyors of customs [electronic resource] : American literature as cultural analysis / Joel Pfister.
Author Pfister, Joel, author.
ISBN 9780190276171 (electronic book)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157 doi
Call Number PS169.N35 P55 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9358
Summary 'Surveyors of Custom' explores literature's insights into how America - its soft capitalism, its 'democratised' inequality, its Americanisation of power - ticks. Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical 'surveyors' of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much more.
Note 'Surveyors of Custom' explores literature's insights into how America - its soft capitalism, its 'democratised' inequality, its Americanisation of power - ticks. Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical 'surveyors' of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much more.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series Oxford studies in American literary history.
Available in Other Form Surveyors of customs.
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Introduction: the critical work and critical pleasure of American literature
Inner-self industries: soft capitalism's reproductive logic
How America works: getting personal to get personnel
Dress-down conquest: Americanizing top-down as bottom-up
Afterword: payoffs.

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