| Description |
xiv, 326 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
[1.] Community and fragmentation in America: Divided society, divided selves: "Bartleby, the scrivener" and the market society -- Fathers, brothers, and "the diseased": the family and alienation in Huckleberry Finn -- The conjure woman: double consciousness and the genteel tradition -- Billy Budd: identity, ideology, and power -- [2.] The impact of social change: The practice and price of mobility: the market society and Franklin's Autobiography -- Social change and divided selves: "my kinsman, Major Molineux" -- Cohesive alternatives and the fear of isolation: early Whitman and market-society change -- The war machine in the garden: capitalism, republicanism, and Protestant character structure in A Connecticut yankee -- [3.] Styles of American individualism: The artist in the slammer: Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and the prison of their times -- Capitalism, democracy, and tyranny: the politics of individualism in Moby-Dick -- "Song of myself": Whitman's individualism and market-society America -- A hazard of new fortunes: the crosscurrents of cultural hegemony -- The house of mirth: the political psychology of capitalism -- Dreiser and the dynamics of American capitalism: Sister Carrie and The financier. |
| Subject |
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Social change in literature.
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Capitalism and literature.
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| Added Title |
Social criticism and nineteenth-century American fictions. |
| ISBN |
0826206484 alkaline paper |
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