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Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865 1930
Engelsk Hardback
Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865 1930
Engelsk Hardback

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What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott’s portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s painter protagonist Avis Dobell know--and care--that her red shawl is dyed with desiccated beetles? Why might W.E.B. Du Bois’s fictional sharecropper display a reproduction of a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau near his cotton field? These questions, and more, are answered by Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930. An interdisciplinary study of references to internationally-traded commodities in US fiction, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 assembles an integrated geopolitical analysis of Americans’ material, gendered, and aesthetic experiences of empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining allusions to contested goods like cochineal, cotton, oranges, fur, gold, pearls, porcelain, and wheat, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 reveals a linked global imagination among authors who were often directly or indirectly critical of US imperial ambitions. Furthermore, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 considers the commodification of art itself, interpreting writers’ allusions to paintings, sculptures, and artists as self-aware acknowledgments of their own complicity in global capitalism. As Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 demonstrates, literary texts have long trained consumers to imagine their relationship to the world through the things they own.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
288
ISBN-13:
9781399505710
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1399505718
Udg. Dato:
25 apr 2023
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
161mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
25 apr 2023
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge