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"Brown's new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. Writers such as Mark Twain, Frank Norris, Sarah Orne Jewett, and Henry James ask why and how we use objects to make meaning, to make or remake ourselves, to organize our anxieties and affections, to sublimate our fears, and to shape our wildest dreams. Offering a remarkably new way to think about materialism. A Sense of Things will be essential reading for anyone interested in American literature and culture."--Jacket.

Consommation (Economie politique) dans la littérature --- Consumptie (Economie) in de literatuur --- Consumption (Economics) in literature --- Culture matérielle dans la littérature --- Material culture in literature --- Materiële cultuur in de literatuur --- Possessiveness in literature --- Productie (Economische theorie) in literatuur --- Production (Economic theory) in literature --- Production (Théorie économique) in littérature --- Verbruik (Economie) in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Consumption (Economics) in literature. --- Economics and literature --- Material culture in literature. --- Material culture --- Possessiveness in literature. --- Production (Economic theory) in literature. --- History and criticism. --- History --- 93/94 --- 930.8 --- 8 --- Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Literature --- Literature and economics --- Geschiedenis --- Cultuurgeschiedenis --- Cultuur (geschiedenis) --- Literatuur --- Economic aspects --- History and criticism --- 19th century --- United States --- AMERICAN FICTION --- MATERIAL CULTURE --- ECONOMICS AND LITERATURE --- POSSESSIVENESS IN LITERATURE --- 19th CENTURY --- U.S.