... in an Age of Consumption . By Betjemann Peter . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2011 . ix , 267 pp. Cloth , $35.00 ; e-book available . Body Double: The Author Incarnate in the Cinema . By Fischer Lucy . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2013 . 273 pp. Cloth...

...Brooke Horvath 2006 Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry . By Jed Rasula. Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press. 2004. x, 311 pp. Cloth, $65.00; paper, $29.95. Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry...

...George Uba 2006 Afro-Orientalism . By Bill V. Mullen. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press. 2004. xliv, 240 pp. Cloth, $56.95; paper, $18.95. Consumption and Identity in Asian American Coming-of-Age Novels . By Jennifer Ann Ho. New York: Routledge. 2005. 202 pp. $75.00...

...Joseph Helminski © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eating the Black Body: Miscegenation as Sexual Consumption in African American Literature and Culture . By Carlyle Van Thompson. New York: Peter Lang. 2006. xiii, 231 pp. Paper, $29.95. Deans and Truants: Race and Realism...

... reform project in Walden hinges on diet and Thoreau's attitude toward literal “groceries.” Thoreau's interest in dietary practices has generally been read as apolitical or even antipolitical, primarily because his dietary and consumptive practices have never been adequately situated amid contemporary...

...David M. Stewart Misgivings about consumption as a biological metaphor reflect the extent to which our turn to the body in literary and cultural studies too often reduces it to abstractions of text and theory. This limits treating literature whose bodily appeal seems obvious, even when...

...) and Sylvia Beach's memoir Shakespeare and Company (1956) use ideas about consumer capitalism espoused by U.S. consumer elites (policy makers, industrialists, and public relations professionals) to construe their authors as American modernists. In these two texts, Stein and Beach regard consumption...

... Thoreau's portrayal of a disrupted sleep-world in relation to the incursions of nineteenth-century patterns of labor and consumption, the spread of psychoactive substances and phenomena, and the rise of neurological science and psychiatry; a fourth considers his efforts to conceive alternative valuations...

... and Madeline Yale Wynne. Although their values were antithetical, Arts and Crafts and New Thought shared striking similarities in the ways they yoked consumption habits to personal well-being and used fiction to understand and endorse popular secular philosophies. These women-led movements shaped enduring...

..., and the environmental humanities—and considering cultural artifacts from Smith’s tracts and Herman Melville’s fiction to Cheryl Savageau’s poetry and the underwater sculpture of Jason deCaires Taylor—the essay reads the commodification and consumption of these creatures as constitutive elements of an extinction...

... overlooked moment in literature and history. Even during its time, the movement struggled to win acclaim from the mainstream abolitionist movement, mainly due to its strict guidelines on commodity consumption. As the supporters of the movement saw it, the boycott of slave-produced goods was central...

... the characterization of both Humbert and Lolita. In particular, the portrait of Lolita as a consumer (of candy, ice cream, and a variety of kitschy objects) serves as the means by which her own consumption by Humbert is rationalized...

... by accommodating readers, policy makers, and stakeholders of all kinds to the new realities of finance capitalism. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 value neoclassical economics consumer society equilibrium rational consumption In an essay that is duly famous for its pioneering...

...—the objects and food in Stein’s rooms were brought there by others, whereas Mullen must go to the market herself—but we must also attend to the ways this dis- tance is marked by race. A white woman’s relationship to the market- place, commodification, and consumption is different—historically, politically...

... gradually but definitively gives way to a modern emphasis on self-marketing, the body, and consumption. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 201 of 232 As Pendergast notes, however, African American audiences were for a long time excluded...

... gives way to a modern emphasis on self-marketing, the body, and consumption. 6363 AMERICAN LITERATURE 73:2 / sheet 201 of 232 As Pendergast notes, however, African American audiences were for a long time excluded from the national...

... the late twentieth. Each book centers on a different aspect of transpacific entanglement—political economy, literary aesthetic, consumption culture—while exposing relations as simultaneously material and cultural. Ultimately, these books imply that crossing the Pacific entails imperialism, if in a new form...

... studies emerged within the discipline to examine the material and commercial context of games’ production and consumption. Work on esports has delved into the organized and highly monetized world of gaming competition. And a critical mass of scholars has engaged with the vast universe of video game...

... in the Wild offers a valuable critique of corporate sustainability. One of its central observations is that corporations typically use AI toward increasing the efficiency of production, not toward reducing total resource consumption. Dauvergne writes that ecobusiness is “aiming to expand markets, sales...

... by invading US forces. Through this compelled amnesia, the monument instantiates a grate- ful, indebted populace, and it produces (retroactively and anticipato- rily) a desire for a new brand of freedom: the freedom of consumption and from regulation that characterized the neoliberalization...