Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930 / / Heather Wayne.
Traces authors’ attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commoditiesPairs global economic histories with close readings of commodities depicted in fiction in order to shed new light on the strategies that both well-known and under-studied...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures : ECSALC
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Getting to Know the Inter-Imperial “Lineages” of Domestic Commodities in US Fiction, 1865–1930
- Chapter 1 Cotton, Carmine, Coal, and Flour: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Consumption in Alcott and Phelps
- Chapter 2 Maneuvering through Centuries of Inter-Imperial Fur Trading and Gold Speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
- Chapter 3 Bouguereau is Best: Disentangling Economic and Aesthetic Values in Norris and Du Bois
- Chapter 4 Orientalist Consumption of Pearls and Blue Chinese Porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index