Surveyors of Customs
Subtitle: American Literature as Cultural Analysis
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780190276157
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism; National characteristics in literature; Literature and society
Description: 'Surveyors of Custom' explores literature's insights into how America - its soft capitalism, its 'democratised' inequality, its Americanisation of power - ticks. Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical 'surveyors' of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much more.