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A sense of things : the object matter of American literature
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- Creator
- Bill Brown
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226076287, 0226076288, 9780226076294, 0226076296
- OCLC
- ocm50234957
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-235) and index.
- The idea of things and the ideas in them -- The tyranny of things. Fetishisms. Object lessons. A trivial thing. Democratic objects -- The nature of things. Iteration. Creatures of habit. Possession. The miracle of history. Misuse value -- Regional artifacts. Natural histories. Life-groups and the cultural thing. Material history. "A kind of fetichism". Waste matter. Modernist archeology -- The decoration of houses. Décor. The novel démeublé. Reification as utopia. Things to think with. Golden bowls -- The death and life of things : modernity and modernism
Subjects
- American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
- Material culture in literature.
- Economics and literature -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Material culture -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
- Production (Economic theory) in literature.
- Consumption (Economics) in literature.
- Possessiveness in literature.