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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2008
... grew by an estimated 40 percent in the
United States between 1910 and 1929) and expanded consumer credit
gave Americans access to consumer goods as never before; and just
as significantly, the American ethos accommodated the burgeoning of
consumerism and corporate prowess.6...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 March 2018
...Jessica Conrad Abstract This essay examines the unique positionality of abolitionist boycott literature, situated within the sentimental trends of antebellum literature while employing the sensationalist language of consumer interaction with morally compromised goods. Boycott literature ultimately...
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American Literature (2001) 73 (2): 426–427.
Published: 01 June 2001
... from the national consumer marketplace that mediated this
shift. As a result, black magazines became the setting for the victory not
of consumerism but of W. E. B. DuBois’s vision of black modernity over...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (1): 159–161.
Published: 01 March 2020
... . 2018 . xii, 246 pp. Cloth, $105.00 ; e-book available. Consuming Catastrophe: Mass Culture in America’s Decade of Disaster . By Timothy Recuber . Philadelphia : Temple Univ. Press . 2016 . ix, 214 pp. Cloth, $89.50 ; paper, $28.95 ; e-book, $28.95 . Copyright © 2020 by Duke...
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American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 387–390.
Published: 01 June 2020
... . By Zhaoming Qian . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2017 . xv, 187 pp. Cloth, $ 70.00 ; paper, $ 29.50 ; e-book, $ 29.50 . Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America . By Andrew C. McKevitt . Chapel Hill : Univ. of North Carolina Press . 2017 . x...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (2): 233–263.
Published: 01 June 2008
... forms of display that aspired as much to grace and intimacy as vulgarity and intimidation. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 David M. Consuming George Thompson
Stewart
George Thompson was a fat man. In his 1854
memoir, My Life: Or the Adventures of Geo...
Journal Article
American Literature (2021) 93 (1): 35–58.
Published: 01 March 2021
... premised on the significance of consumer data as the raw material of economic interpretation and fixated on mathematical analysis as a source of knowledge about value. Marginalism in economic theory and realism in American literary practice were contemporaneous efforts to mediate value at a moment...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and its object, the agent blurred with the process of her continual self-invention as a hybrid of multiple cultures. Meditating on relations between subject and object, viewer and vision, consumer and commodity, Yezierska makes plain the role of citizen as consumer. Her work crystallizes the dominance...
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American Literature (2021) 93 (4): 601–628.
Published: 01 December 2021
... a lost genealogy of popular ideas that have shaped our culture, but also demonstrates the centrality of female thinkers and writers to the development of our present-day notions about how to transcend the grinding forces of consumer capitalism in everyday life. 7 Beryl Satter ( 2001 : 81–82...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 361–389.
Published: 01 June 2016
...Monica Hanna Abstract Some of the most compelling and widely consumed US Latin@ literature being produced at the turn of the twenty-first century is literary journalism in the form of the chronicle, a transnational and transhistorical genre that draws on US and Latin American literary traditions...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (1): 59–90.
Published: 01 March 2019
... Mysteria, who was African American. In the process, I show that literary critics have allowed the misogyny of West’s novella to define one of the most enduring of all women’s popular genres. Advice columns have been dismissed as a morally bankrupt product of consumer capitalism, but they did more than...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (2): 379–395.
Published: 01 June 2017
... and transferring learning from the course to action as a citizen. This pedagogy ultimately fosters a liberal education that explicitly links private study with public concerns and that encourages students to see themselves as potential agents of change in a neoliberal state that identifies them merely as consumers...
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“That Friendship of the Whites”: Patronage, Philanthropy, and Charles Chesnutt's The Colonel's Dream
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 775–801.
Published: 01 December 2011
... used to describe the continuous and changing social practices of patronage and philanthropy in the era of corporate capitalism. Such friendship calls into question simple conceptions about supply and demand, consumer preference, and the diversifying power of markets. Placing Chesnutt's writings...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (1): 151–174.
Published: 01 March 2012
... an aesthetic program that offers solutions to the contradictions and incoherencies of postwar modernism. He aims to show thereby that so-called middlebrow literature might be thought of not merely in terms of the set of structures for marketing and distribution through which it was consumed, but as having...
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American Literature (2012) 84 (3): 505–532.
Published: 01 September 2012
... materials of that economic sector not as a distant or vicarious consumer but, following his visit to the Old Berkshire Mill in Dalton in the winter of 1851, as a specialized purchaser. Instead of treating paper as a metonym of literary-market exchange, then, Thompson’s essay examines Melville’s experience...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 799–823.
Published: 01 December 2015
..., retrospectively, be described as neoliberalism. The neoliberal style this essay explicates allows for subjects under neoliberalism to inhabit a position that limits politics to the confines of individual entrepreneurialism and consumerism, thus broadcasting politics as not a collective enterprise but instead...
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Metadata, Metafiction, and the Stakes of Surveillance in Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad
American Literature (2017) 89 (1): 155–184.
Published: 01 March 2017
..., and, therefore, largely unpaid, consumers too are working for free. In a dystopian technofuture impacted by climate change and characterized by rampant consumerism and state surveillance, Scotty’s concert at ground zero, or “The Footprint,” hit a nerve when he began singing the songs he’d been writing...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (3): 629–652.
Published: 01 September 2003
... I believe provides a critical means of elucidat-
ing the novel’s moral center.4 Another is the novel’s fascination with
American consumer culture, as well as the passion it depicts for tour-
ism and collecting through...
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American Literature (2005) 77 (1): 65–92.
Published: 01 March 2005
... use of
‘‘a paratactic sentence that . . . makes sense in an agrammatical way,
in a poetic way But Mullen was also drawn to Stein’s interest in ‘‘the
domestic space that is a woman’s space and with the ideas of consump-
tion, our investment in objects, our consumer fetishism1 Approach-
ing Stein...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (2): 307–333.
Published: 01 June 2007
... adaptation to mass culture.
During the mid-1800s, advances in print technology allowed images
to be produced inexpensively. Many time-strapped consumers of fic-
tion, believing that one picture was indeed worth the novel’s thou-
sands of words, preferred to purchase the illustrated short...
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