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Surveyors of Custom: American Literature as Cultural Analysis - Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Pfister, Joel (Olin Professor of English, Olin Professor of English, Wesleyan University)
Surveyors of Custom: American Literature as Cultural Analysis - Oxford Studies in American Literary History
Pfister, Joel (Olin Professor of English, Olin Professor of English, Wesleyan University)
Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America--its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power--"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.
288 pages, 1 halftone
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | February 11, 2016 |
ISBN13 | 9780190276157 |
Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
Pages | 288 |
Dimensions | 244 × 168 × 26 mm · 508 g |