Surveyors of Customs Joel Pfister 2016 Hardcover Book 1st Edition Used Rare

Description: Used copy of Surveyors of Customs written by Joel Pfister, published by Oxford University Press in New York in the year 2016. Old historical rare vintage antique books. In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, fired from Salem's Custom House and returning to writing, reconceived his old job title, Surveyor of Customs, as his new one. Taking seriously this naming of the American author's project, Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else. Literary surveyors have helped make possible and can advance what we now call cultural analysis. In recent decades cultural theory and history have changed how we read literature. Literature can return the favor. America's achievement as a literary nation has contributed creatively to its accomplishment as a self-critical nation. The surveyors convened herein wrote novels, stories, plays, poetry, essays, autobiography, journals, and cultural criticism. Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America--its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power--"ticks." The author is Joel Pfister. Author Joel Pfister is an Olin Professor of English, Chair of the American Studies department, and was recently Chair of the English department at Wesleyan University Published by Oxford University Press in New York in 2016. The edition is 1st. The size is 6 inches x 9.5 inches x 1 inch. The colors is Grey and red. The book contains no signatures. The book has no marginalia or writings within the book. The book is Hardcover bound. The book has a dust cover. The genre is Non-fiction. The language is English. Shipped the next day with USPS Media mail in a bubble mailer.

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