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Surveyors of customs : American literature as cultural analysis /

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'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...

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Main Author: Pfister, Joel (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : 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.
Littérature américaine > Aspect social > Histoire et critique.
Culture dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire.
American literature > Social aspects
Culture in literature
Literature and society
National characteristics, American, in literature
United States
Kultur > Motiv
Literatur
Nationalcharakter > Motiv
Kulturanalyse
USA
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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