TY - GEN N2 - '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. DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157 DO - doi AB - '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. T1 - Surveyors of customsAmerican literature as cultural analysis / AU - Pfister, Joel, CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - PS169.N35 ID - 756933 KW - American literature KW - National characteristics, American, in literature. KW - Culture in literature. KW - Literature and society SN - 9780190276171 TI - Surveyors of customsAmerican literature as cultural analysis / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157.001.0001 ER -