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Subject(s)

• American fiction—19th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Material culture in literature [Browse]
• Economics and literature—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Material culture—United States—History—19th century [Browse]
• Production (Economic theory) in literature [Browse]
• Consumption (Economics) in literature [Browse]
• Possessiveness in literature [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-235) and index.

Contents

• The idea of things and the ideas in them
• The tyranny of things
• Fetishisms
• Object lessons
• A trivial thing
• Democratic objects
• The nature of things
• Iteration
• Creatures of habit
• Possession
• The miracle of history
• Misuse value
• Regional artifacts
• Natural histories
• Life-groups and the cultural thing
• Material history
• "A kind of fetichism"
• Waste matter
• Modernist archeology
• The decoration of houses
• Décor
• The novel démeublé
• Reification as utopia
• Things to think with
• Golden bowls
• The death and life of things : modernity and modernism.

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ISBN

• 0226076288 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0226076296 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

2002010611

OCLC

50234957

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