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Zusatztext ...carefully constructed arguments...Pfister is effective in joining theory and close readings of the texts." -Choice Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: The Critical Work and Critical Pleasure of American Literature 1. Inner-Self Industries: Soft Capitalism's Reproductive Logic 2. How America Works: Getting Personal to Get Personnel 3. Dress-Down Conquest: Americanizing Top-Down as Bottom-Up Afterword: Payoffs Notes Works Consulted Index
