Title: Surveyors of Customs
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.
Subjects: American literature, history and criticism, National characteristics in literature, Literature and society, History, National characteristics, American, in literature, History and criticism, American literature, Culture in literature, Littérature américaine, Aspect social, Histoire et critique, Culture dans la littérature, Littérature et société, Histoire, Social aspects, Kultur, Literatur, Nationalcharakter, Kulturanalyse