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Paperback The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century Volume 2 Book

ISBN: 0520059824

ISBN13: 9780520059825

The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century Volume 2

(Part of the The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics Series)

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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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

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critical tour de force

Brillant and acute, if not somewhat idiosyncratic, close-readings of U.S. literary naturalistic texts. Michaels's buoyant prose and the oblique angles he takes in historicizing the texts make for a provoking, worthwhile read. His arguments concerning the masochistic contract (revision of the more conventional deleuzean understanding) and his exploration of the question 'why does the miser save?' are among the most compelling and thrilling close-reads--rather than 'applying theory' to the texts at hand, he offers ways in which the texts themselves produce critical theory. Fabulous work.
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