The Culture And Commerce Of The Early American Novel

Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271046730

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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel by Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's Annals of Europe and America, which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, Stephen Shapiro charts the advent, decline, and reinvigoration of the early American novel. That the American novel "sprang so unexpectedly into published existence during the 1790s" may be a symptom of the beginning of the end of Franco-British supremacy and a reflection of the power of a middle class riding the crest of a new world economic system. Shapiro's world-systems approach is a relatively new methodology for literary studies, but it brings two particularly useful features to the table. First, it refines the conceptual frameworks for analyzing cultural and social history, such as the rise in sentimentalism, in relation to a long-wave economic history of global commerce; second, it fosters a new model for a comparative American Studies across time. Rather than relying on contiguous time, a world-systems approach might compare the cultural production of one region to another at the same location within the recurring cycle in an economic reconfiguration. Shapiro offers a new way of thinking about the causes for the emergence of the American novel that suggests a fresh way of rethinking the overall paradigms shaping American Studies.

Author : Stephen Shapiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0271056126

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Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel by Stephen Shapiro Pdf

Author : E. Brown,C. Gudis,M. Moskowitz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137071828

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Cultures of Commerce by E. Brown,C. Gudis,M. Moskowitz Pdf

While historians have explored the impact on workers of changes in American business, the broader impact on other cultural forms, and vice versa, has not been widely studied. This anthology contributes to the debate at the intersection of business history and the study of cultural forms, ranging from material to visual culture to literature.

Author : Robert Lee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317163909

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Commerce and Culture by Robert Lee Pdf

Considerable attention has recently been focused on the importance of social networks and business culture in reducing transaction costs, both in the pre-industrial period and during the nineteenth century. This book brings together twelve original contributions by scholars in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and North America which represent important and innovative research on this topic. They cover two broad themes. First, the role of business culture in determining commercial success, in particular the importance of familial, religious, ethnic and associational connections in the working lives of merchants and the impact of business practices on family life. Second, the wider institutional and political framework for business operations, in particular the relationship between the political economy of trade and the cultural world of merchants in an era of transition from personal to corporate structures. These key themes are developed in three separate sections, each with four contributions. They focus, in turn, on the role of culture in building and preserving businesses; the interplay between institutions, networks and power in determining commercial success or failure; and the significance of faith and the family in influencing business strategies and the direction of merchant enterprise. The wider historiographical context of the individual contributions is discussed in an extended introductory chapter which sets out the overall agenda of the book and provides a broader comparative framework for analysing the specific issues covered in each of the three sections. Taken together the collection offers an important addition to the available literature in this field and will attract a wide readership amongst business, cultural, maritime, economic, social and urban historians, as well as historical anthropologists, sociologists and other social scientists whose research embraces a longer-term perspective.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Autographs
ISBN : PRNC:32101067017713

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American Book Prices Current by Anonim Pdf

A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Author : Andrew Levy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521440572

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The Culture and Commerce of the American Short Story by Andrew Levy Pdf

The Culture and Commerce of the Short Story is a cultural and historical account of the birth and development of the American short story from the time of Poe. It describes how America - through political movements, changes in education, magazine editorial policy and the work of certain individuals - built the short story as an image of itself and continues to use the genre as a locale within the realm of art where American political ideals can be rehearsed, debated and turned into literary forms. While the focus of this book is cultural, individual authors such as Edgar Allan Poe and Edith Wharton are examined as representative of the phenomenon. As part of its project, this book also contains a history of creative writing and the workshop dating back a century. Andrew Levy makes a strong case for the centrality of the short story as a form of art in American life and provides an explanation for the genre's resurgence and ongoing success.

Author : Mark Kamrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Historicism in literature
ISBN : UOM:39076002965288

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The Historicism of Charles Brockden Brown by Mark Kamrath Pdf

The novels of Charles Brockden Brown redefined the gothic genre but little has been said about the latter years of Brown's career. His later historical narratives are often dismissed as uninteresting, and Brown himself has been accused of having become "a stodgy conservative." This book re-examines Brown's later career and his role in the cultural politics of the early national period. It shows Brown's philosophic inquires into the filiopietistic tradition of historiography and increasingly imperialistic notion of American exceptionalism. It recovers a forgotten debate--and radical position--about the nature of historical truth and representation and opens up for contemporary discussion what it means to write about the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCBK:C117488230

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Ariel by Anonim Pdf

Author : Deming Lillie Loshe
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342307169

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The Early American Novel by Deming Lillie Loshe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812203943

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The Ties That Buy by Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor Pdf

In 1770, tavernkeeper Abigail Stoneman called in her debts by flourishing a handful of playing cards before the Rhode Island Court of Common Pleas. Scrawled on the cards were the IOUs of drinkers whose links to Stoneman testified to women's paradoxical place in the urban economy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Stoneman did traditional women's work—boarding, feeding, cleaning, and selling alcohol—but her customers, like her creditors, underscore her connections to an expansive commercial society. These connections are central to The Ties That Buy. Historian Ellen Hartigan-O'Connor traces the lives of urban women in early America to reveal how they used the ties of residence, work, credit, and money to shape consumer culture at a time when the politics of the marketplace was gaining national significance. Covering the period 1750-1820, the book analyzes how women such as Stoneman used and were used by shifting forms of credit and cash in an economy transitioning between neighborly exchanges and investment-oriented transactions. In this world, commerce reached into every part of life. At the hearths of multifamily homes, renters, lodgers, and recent acquaintances lived together and struck financial deals for survival. Landladies, enslaved washerwomen, shopkeepers, and hucksters sustained themselves by serving the mobile population. A new economic practice in America—shopping—mobilized hierarchical and friendly relationships into wide-ranging consumer networks that depended on these same market connections. Rhetoric emerging after the Revolution downplayed the significance of expanding female economic life in the interest of stabilizing the political order. But women were quintessential market participants, with fluid occupational identities, cross-class social and economic connections, and a firm investment in cash and commercial goods for power and meaning.

Author : Lillie Deming Loshe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : American fiction
ISBN : OCLC:11633516

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The Early American Novel, 1789-1830 by Lillie Deming Loshe Pdf

Author : Biman Basu
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739167434

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The Commerce of Peoples by Biman Basu Pdf

Representations and coverage of S&M have become quite common nowadays, whether we see them in the fashion industry, commercials, the news, on television, film, the internet, and so on. But in the population at large and in the academic community, too, it is still persistently stigmatized. This marginalization, along with its ambivalently persecuted status, is a result, significantly, of a nineteenth century legacy. This legacy begins with Kraftt-Ebing's designation of sadomasochism, along with gay and lesbian desire, as a perversion, and continues in the popular and expert (mis)understandings which prevail. More generally, most people today will recognize that all human relations are power relations. Yet most people will also deny this and mask these power relations by invoking all sorts of things, like romantic love, sentimental attachment, companionate marriage, friendship, peace, non-violence, harmony, and the list goes on, ad nauseam. Not that these do not exist in a sadomasochistic relation, but sadomasochists are unflinching in their recognition that all of these are also permeated by power relations. It is not only impossible to purge these relations of power but for sadomasochists it is also undesirable to do so. It is not only more honest to acknowledge the power that saturates these relations but also more instructive in the sense that S&M provides a context in which one learns to exercise power and to submit to it in a responsible way. Even in scholarly critical and theoretical discussions of S&M, the prevailing opinion is that the power exercised in sadomasochism is not "real." It is of course not real in the sense that slavery and violence no longer has a legal status. But reality cannot of course be gauged or even approximated by its legal status alone. For most practitioners, it is hard to deny the reality of pain, of humiliation, of degradation, in the moment of its enactment. One can hardly deny the reality of bringing the whip down on someone's back or of having it sear across one's buttocks.

Author : Lillie Deming Loshe
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354386000

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The Early American Novel by Lillie Deming Loshe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Laura Bieger
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783839446003

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Belonging and Narrative by Laura Bieger Pdf

Why did the novel become so popular in the past three centuries, and how did the American novel contribute to this trend? As a key provider of the narrative frames and formulas needed by modern individuals to give meaning and mooring to their lives. Drawing on phenomenological hermeneutics, human geography and social psychology, Laura Bieger contends that belonging is not a given; it is continuously produced by narrative. Against the current emphasis on metaphors of movement and destabilization, she explores the salience and significance of home. Challenging views of narrative as a mechanism of ideology, she approaches narrative as a practical component of dwelling in the world - and the novel a primary place-making agent.

Author : Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : UOM:39015054426898

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Perspectives on American Book History by Scott E. Casper,Joanne D. Chaison,Jeffrey D. Groves Pdf

CD-ROM contains: Digital image archive of books, magazines, manuscripts, technologies, and readers to accompany text.