Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865-1930 /
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2023]
|
| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in Atlantic literatures and cultures.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series Editors
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Series Editors' Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Getting to Know the Inter-Imperial "Lineages" of Domestic Commodities in US Fiction, 1865-1930
- Methodology: Nation, Gender, Race, and Taste in Inter-Imperial Commodities
- "Geography in a Cup of Coffee": Nineteenth-Century Commodity Lessons
- Overview of Chapters
- 1. Cotton, Carmine, Coal, and Flour: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Consumption in Alcott and Phelps
- Jo's Imperial-Inspired "Prosing Away" in Little Women
- Avoiding "Oppressive but Extremely Distant Facts" in The Story of Avis
- Confronting Avis's Orientalist Gaze
- The "Inarticulate Passion" of Cochineal Beetles and Carmine Dye
- Conquering Florida's Oranges with a "Little Northern Pluck"
- 2. Maneuvering through Centuries of Inter-Imperial Fur Trading and Gold Speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
- Fur Trade Nostalgia in Anne
- Manipulating the Anglo-Saxon Goddess
- Anne's Consolidation of Power
- "A Great Acquisition" in Who Would Have Thought It?
- Imperial Extraction of New World Gold, Fifteenth Century-Nineteenth Century
- Layers of History in Lola's Shifting Skin Color
- 3. Bouguereau is Best: Disentangling Economic and Aesthetic Values in Norris and Du Bois
- Global Wheat and Cotton Dramas
- Bouguereau as Cultural, Economic, and Political Capital
- Artistic Intrigues
- Concluding Studies in Contrast
- 4. Orientalist Consumption of Pearls and Blue Chinese Porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
- Violent Desires for Pearls in The Custom of the Country
- The "Real Thing" and the Copy
- Undine's Royal Pearls and Global Vision of Conquest
- Shuttling Toward Orientalist "Things" in Larsen's Quicksand
- The Inter-Imperial Hybridity of "Blue Chinese" Porcelain
- Weaving an Integrated Selfhood
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index