Surveyors of customs [electronic resource] : American literature as cultural analysis / Joel Pfister.

Surveyors of customs [electronic resource] : American literature as cultural analysis / Joel Pfister.

9780190276171 (electronic book)

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

English

1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations.

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190276157 doi

PS169.N35 P55 2016eb

810.9358

'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.

'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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford studies in American literary history.

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