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Surveyors of customs : American literature as cultural analysis /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pfister, Joel (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Series:Oxford studies in American literary history.
Subjects:
American literature > Social aspects > History and criticism.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Culture in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the critical work and critical pleasure of American literature
  • Inner-self industries: soft capitalism's reproductive logic
  • How America works: getting personal to get personnel
  • Dress-down conquest: Americanizing top-down as bottom-up
  • Afterword: America is worth saving from.