Creating Realities: Business as a Motif in American Fiction, 1865-1929
Series: American Culture Studies
Publisher: Transcript; transcript publishing
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Bielefeld, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9783837647990
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgments
title: 7; label: Introduction
title: 9; label: 1. The Loss of Reality in Late Nineteenth-Century America
title: 33; label: 2. Business in American Romance and Realism
title: 47; label: 2.1 Didactic and Satirical Business in American Romance
title: 49; label: 2.2 American Realism: An Aesthetics of Orientation
title: 59; label: 2.3 Business in the Works of Early Realists
title: 76; label: 3. The Realist Business in The Rise of Silas Lapham
title: 91; label: 3.1 W. D. Howells: The Search for Orientation
title: 93; label: 3.2 Orienting Business in The Rise of Silas Lapham
title: 109; label: 4. The Naturalist Business in The Financier
title: 131; label: 4.1 American Naturalism: An Aesthetics of Scandal
title: 133; label: 4.2 Theodore Dreiser: The Search for Intensity
title: 158; label: 4.3 “Uncivilizing” Business in The Financier
title: 178; label: 5. Business in American Modernism
title: 199; label: 5.1 American Modernism: An Aesthetics of Subjectivity
title: 201; label: 5.2 Subjectivizing Business in The Great Gatsby
title: 216; label: Conclusion
title: 225; label: Works Cited
title: 237