Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America: 82 (Anglistik und Englischunterricht) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 3825363694 ISBN 13: 9783825363697

Verlag: Universitaetsverlag Winter, 2014

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Reseña del editor

It is time for a new approach to nineteenth-century interactions between literary texts and practices of consumption. Instead of treating antebellum America and the century's turn as two discrete periods, the editors aim for a more flexible framework. They propose reading Progressive Era classics side by side with literary and popular texts exploring - and feeding - the flow of commodities long before Theodore Dreiser portrayed department stores. Discussing the intricate relationships of mass consumption and literary representation, European and North American contributors focus on Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Mark Twain, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Edith Wharton. They also turn to less securely canonized fields: New England 'factory girl' literature, multimedia abolitionist spectacle, and the formative years of literary tourism.

Biografía del autor

Nicole Maruo-Schroder is professor of cultural studies at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. She is the author of "Spaces and Places in Motion: Spatial Concepts in Contemporary American Literature".

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• Verlag: Universitaetsverlag Winter
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 3825363694
• ISBN 13: 9783825363697
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 169
• Herausgeber: Maruo-schroder Nicole, Ribbat Christoph