Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-0572-7 (ISBN)
What is a reference to an Italian Egyptologist doing in Louisa May Alcott’s portrait of domesticity Little Women? Why does Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s painter protagonist Avis Dobell know--and care--that her red shawl is dyed with desiccated beetles? Why might W.E.B. Du Bois’s fictional sharecropper display a reproduction of a painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau near his cotton field? These questions, and more, are answered by Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930. An interdisciplinary study of references to internationally-traded commodities in US fiction, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 assembles an integrated geopolitical analysis of Americans’ material, gendered, and aesthetic experiences of empire at the turn of the twentieth century. Examining allusions to contested goods like cochineal, cotton, oranges, fur, gold, pearls, porcelain, and wheat, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 reveals a linked global imagination among authors who were often directly or indirectly critical of US imperial ambitions. Furthermore, Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 considers the commodification of art itself, interpreting writers’ allusions to paintings, sculptures, and artists as self-aware acknowledgments of their own complicity in global capitalism. As Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 demonstrates, literary texts have long trained consumers to imagine their relationship to the world through the things they own.
Heather Wayne is a teacher of English and independent researcher living in Massachusetts. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and she has taught writing and literature courses at UMass Amherst and the University of Central Florida. Her research focuses on nineteenth-century US literature, material culture, feminism, visual culture, empire and global history.
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Getting To Know The Inter-Imperial "Lineages" Of Domestic Commodities In Us Fiction, 1865-1930
1. Cotton, Carmine, Coal, And Flour: The Ethics And Aesthetics Of Domestic Consumption In Fiction By Alcott And Phelps
2. Maneuvering Through Centuries Of Inter-Imperial Fur Trading And Gold Speculation In Woolson And Ruiz De Burton
3. Bouguereau Is Best: Disentangling Economic And Aesthetic Values In Norris And Du Bois
4. Orientalist Consumption Of Pearls And Blue Chinese Porcelain In Wharton And Larsen
Conclusion
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 31.01.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Atlantic Literatures and Cultures |
| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3995-0572-6 / 1399505726 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3995-0572-7 / 9781399505727 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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