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Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth-Century America
Herausgeber: Maruo-Schröder, Nicole | Ribbat, Christoph
anglistik & englischunterricht, Bd. 82
2014
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Abstract
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
| Zwischenüberschrift | Seite | Aktion | Preis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | 5 | ||
| List of Illustrations | 7 | ||
| Nicole Maruo-Schröder & Christoph Ribbat - Introduction: Literature and Consumption in Nineteenth- Century America | 9 | ||
| Katja Kanzler - Discourses of Production and Consumption in New England 'Factory Girl' Literature | 29 | ||
| Nicole Maruo-Schröder - A "Dish Offered to the Public": The Business of Gender and Class in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables | 45 | ||
| Christoph Ribbat - "Where Do You Get Your Daguerreotypes?" Image, Text, Race, and a Nineteenth-Century Businessman | 67 | ||
| Klara Stephanie Szlezák - Sages and Souvenirs: The Origins of American Literary Tourism in Concord, Massachusetts | 89 | ||
| Arthur F. Redding - American Tourism and the Emergence of Mass Culture: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad | 107 | ||
| William M. Decker - Consuming Europe: Daisy Miller and the Package Tour | 121 | ||
| Simone Knewitz - "Try My Tivoli": Conspicuous Consumption in William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance | 133 | ||
| Eva Boesenberg - Sex and the City: Gender and Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction | 153 | ||
| Contributors' Addresses | 171 |
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