TY  - BOOK
N2  - "Brown's new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism. A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture."--Jacket.
AB  - "Brown's new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism. A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture."--Jacket.
T1  - A sense of things :the object matter of American literature /
DA  - 2003.
CY  - Chicago :
AU  - Brown, Bill,
CN  - PS374.M39
CN  - PS374.M39
PB  - University of Chicago Press,
PP  - Chicago :
PY  - 2003.
ID  - 892368
KW  - American fiction
KW  - Material culture in literature.
KW  - Economics and literature
KW  - Material culture
KW  - Production (Economic theory) in literature.
KW  - Consumption (Economics) in literature.
KW  - Possessiveness in literature.
SN  - 9780226076294
SN  - 0226076296
SN  - 9780226076287
SN  - 0226076288
TI  - A sense of things :the object matter of American literature /
ER  -