Poor Things: Objects, Ownership, and the Underclasses in American Literature, 1868-1935
Description:
This dissertation explores both the production of underclass literature and the vibrancy of material between 1868-1935. During an era of rampant materialism, consumer capitalism, unchecked industrialism, and economic inequality in the United States, poor, working class Americans confronted their socioeconomic status by abandoning the linear framework of capitalism that draws only a straight line between market and consumer, and engaging in a more intimate relationship with local, material thing…
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Date:
May 2019
Creator:
Johnson, Meghan Taylor