Sense of Things The Object Matter of American Literature

Name: Sense of Things The Object Matter of American Literature
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ISBN: 9780226076294

ISBN-10: 0226076296

ISBN-13: 9780226076294

Edition: 2003

Authors: Bill Brown

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Bill 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.

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Introduction: 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 Deacute;cor The Novel Deacute;meubleacute; Reification as Utopia Things to Think With Golden Bowls Coda: The Death and Life of Things: Modernity and Modernism


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