Surveyors of Custom

Auteur: Pfister, Joel (Olin Professor of English, Olin Professor of English, Wesleyan University)
Editeur: Oxford University Press Inc
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.

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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.
ISBN / EAN 9780190276157
Auteur Pfister, Joel (Olin Professor of English, Olin Professor of English, Wesleyan University)
Editeur Oxford University Press Inc