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Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities

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"By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter

Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction 1865 1930

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      Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
      Publication Date: 25/04/2023
      ISBN13: 9781399505710, 978-1399505710
      ISBN10: 1399505718
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      Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Traces authors' attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities

      Trade Review
      "By examining the cultural lives of goods such as cotton, coal, fur (and others), Wayne's fascinating study reveals how American writers critiqued U.S. imperial ambitions in the decades after the Civil War. The book makes a significant contribution not only to American literary studies but also to strands of postcolonial and ecocritical scholarship devoted to cultures of extraction, resource narratives and exploitative histories." -Sin ad Moynihan, University of Exeter

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