Consuming empire in US fiction, 1865-1930 / Heather Diane Wayne.
2023
PS374.C595 W39 2023
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Title
Consuming empire in US fiction, 1865-1930 / Heather Diane Wayne.
ISBN
9781399505734 webready pdf
1399505734 webready pdf
9781399505741 epub
1399505742 epub
9781399505710 hardback
1399505718 hardback
1399505734 webready pdf
9781399505741 epub
1399505742 epub
9781399505710 hardback
1399505718 hardback
Published
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (ix, 274 pages).
Call Number
PS374.C595 W39 2023
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1373342027
Summary
Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : Getting to know the inter-imperial "lineages" of domestic commodities in US Fiction, 1865-1930
1. Cotton, carmine, coal, and flour : The ethics and aesthetics of domestic consumption in Alcott and Phelps
2. Maneuvering through centuries of inter-imperial fur trading and gold speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
3. Bouguereau is best : Disentangling economic and aesthetic values in Norris and Du Bois
4. Orientalist consumption of pearls and blue Chinese porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
Conclusion.
1. Cotton, carmine, coal, and flour : The ethics and aesthetics of domestic consumption in Alcott and Phelps
2. Maneuvering through centuries of inter-imperial fur trading and gold speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
3. Bouguereau is best : Disentangling economic and aesthetic values in Norris and Du Bois
4. Orientalist consumption of pearls and blue Chinese porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
Conclusion.
Historical Data
Heather Wayne is a teacher of English and independent researcher living in Massachusetts. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she has taught writing and literature courses at UMass Amherst and the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century US literature, material culture, feminism, visual culture, empire and global history.
Source of Description
Print version record.
Series
Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Wayne, Heather Diane. Consuming empire in U.S. fiction, 1865-1930. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023
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