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A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature

By Bill Brown

Book information

Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Year
2003
ISBN
0226076288, 0226076296
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (19083676 bytes)
Pages
\260
Time added
2023-06-22 09:10:13

Description

Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: The Idea of Things and the Ideas in Them One: The Tyranny of Things Fetishisms Object Lessons A Trivial Thing Democratic Objects Two: The Nature of Things Iteration Creatures of Habit Possession The Miracle of History Misuse Value Three: Regional Artifacts Natural Histories Life-Groups and the Cultural Thing Material History "A Kind of Fetichism" Waste Matter Modernist Archeology Four: The Decoration of Houses Décor The Novel Démeublé Reification as Utopia Things to Think With Golden Bowls Coda: The Death and Life of Things: Modernity and Modernism Notes Index

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