The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism: American Literature at the Turn of the Century (The New Historicism : Studies in Cultural Poetics, 2)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 1, 1988
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780520059825
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Naturalism in literature; History and criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; Production (Economic theory) i; General; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; 20th century; American fiction; Production (Economic theory) in literature
First sentence: There is remarkable passage in Dreiser's Sister Carrie just after the famous scene in which Carrie first accepts money, "two soft, green, handsome ten-dollar bills," from the drummer Drouet.