Surveyors of Customs: American Literature as Cultural Analysis

ISBN-13: 9780190876555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 290 str.

Joel Pfister

Opis

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.

Recenzje

...carefully constructed arguments...Pfister is effective in joining theory and close readings of the texts." -Choice

O autorze

Joel Pfister is Olin Professor of English, Chair of the American Studies department, and was recently Chair of the English department at Wesleyan University. He has written five books and co-edited a volume of essays that range over U.S. literature and drama, the cultural history of subjectivity, the Anglo-American history of cultural critique, and the history of Americanization, race, and class.