Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Getting to Know the Inter-Imperial “Lineages” of Domestic Commodities in US Fiction, 1865–1930
- 1 Cotton, Carmine, Coal, and Flour: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Consumption in Alcott and Phelps
- 2 Maneuvering through Centuries of Inter-Imperial Fur Trading and Gold Speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
- 3 Bouguereau is Best: Disentangling Economic and Aesthetic Values in Norris and Du Bois
- 4 Orientalist Consumption of Pearls and Blue Chinese Porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Getting to Know the Inter-Imperial “Lineages” of Domestic Commodities in US Fiction, 1865–1930
- 1 Cotton, Carmine, Coal, and Flour: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Domestic Consumption in Alcott and Phelps
- 2 Maneuvering through Centuries of Inter-Imperial Fur Trading and Gold Speculation in Woolson and Ruiz de Burton
- 3 Bouguereau is Best: Disentangling Economic and Aesthetic Values in Norris and Du Bois
- 4 Orientalist Consumption of Pearls and Blue Chinese Porcelain in Wharton and Larsen
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Consuming Empire in US Fiction, 1865–1930 , pp. viii - xPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2023