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Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865-1930

By Heather D Wayne
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By Heather D Wayne
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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 s...

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Literary CriticismAmerican LiteratureGeneral & Miscellaneous Literary CriticismGeneral & Miscellaneous American Literature - Literary CriticismModern LiteratureAmerican literature->History and criticismLiterature, Modern->19th century->History and criticism