The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)

Michæls, Walter Benn

ISBN 10: 0520059816 / ISBN 13: 9780520059818

Published by University of California Press, 1987

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Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing. Lit Crit.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics)
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520059816
• ISBN 13: 9780520059818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
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  • Literature

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Walter Benn Michaels teaches English at Johns Hopkins University.