Joel Pfister

Surveyors of Customs

American Literature as Cultural Analysis

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Produktbeschreibung

Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America¿its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization 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 else.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780190276157
• ISBN-10: 0190276150
• Artikelnr.: 47864052

Autorenporträt

Joel Pfister is Olin Professor of English and American Studies at Wesleyan University. His publications include Staging Depth: Eugene O'Neill and the Politics of Psychological Discourse (University of North Carolina Press, 1995), Individuality Incorporated: Indians and the Multicultural Modern (Duke UP, 2004) and The Yale Indian: The Education of Henry Roe Cloud (Duke UP, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Critical Work and Critical Pleasure of American Literature
1. Inner-Self Industries: Soft Capitalism's Reproductive Logic
2. How America Works: Getting Personal to Get Personnel
3. Dress-Down Conquest: Americanizing Top-Down as Bottom-Up
Afterword: Payoffs
Notes
Works Consulted
Index