TY - BOOK ID - 2896300 TI - A sense of things : the object matter of American literature PY - 2003 SN - 0226076288 0226076296 9780226076294 PB - Chicago University of Chicago Press DB - UniCat KW - Consommation (Economie politique) dans la littérature KW - Consumptie (Economie) in de literatuur KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature KW - Culture matérielle dans la littérature KW - Material culture in literature KW - Materiële cultuur in de literatuur KW - Possessiveness in literature KW - Productie (Economische theorie) in literatuur KW - Production (Economic theory) in literature KW - Production (Théorie économique) in littérature KW - Verbruik (Economie) in de literatuur KW - American fiction KW - Consumption (Economics) in literature. KW - Economics and literature KW - Material culture in literature. KW - Material culture KW - Possessiveness in literature. KW - Production (Economic theory) in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - History KW - 93/94 KW - 930.8 KW - 8 KW - Amerika KW - Verenigde Staten KW - Culture KW - Folklore KW - Technology KW - Literature KW - Literature and economics KW - Geschiedenis KW - Cultuurgeschiedenis KW - Cultuur (geschiedenis) KW - Literatuur KW - Economic aspects KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century KW - United States KW - AMERICAN FICTION KW - MATERIAL CULTURE KW - ECONOMICS AND LITERATURE KW - POSSESSIVENESS IN LITERATURE KW - 19th CENTURY KW - U.S. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2896300 AB - "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. ER -