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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.
Price: $31.95
Pages: 257
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
01 November 1988
ISBN: 9780520059825
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Walter Benn Michaels teaches English at Johns Hopkins University.
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
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