The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century / Edition 1

by Walter Benn Michaels

Overview

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism discusses ways of creating value in turn-of-the-century American capitalism. Focusing on such topics as the alienation of property, the invention of masochism, and the battle over free silver, it examines the participation of cultural forms in these phenomena. It imagines a literary history that must at the same time be social, economic, and legal; and it imagines a literature that, to be understood at all, must be understood both as a producer and a product of market capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520059825
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/01/1988
Series:	The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics , #2
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	257
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Walter Benn Michaels teaches English at Johns Hopkins University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 
INTRODUCTION: THE WRITER'S MARK 
1. SISTER CARRIE'S POPULAR ECONOMY 
2. DREISER'S FINANCIER: THE MAN OF BUSINESS AS A MAN OF LETTERS
3. ROMANCE AND REAL ESTATE 
4. THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF CONTRACT 
5. THE GOLD STANDARD AND THE LOGIC 
OF NATURALISM
6. CORPORATE FICTION 
7. ACTION AND ACCIDENT: PHOTOGRAPHY AND WRITING
Index