Sense of Things
Sense of Things In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and…
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Sense of Things
In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our relentless effort to sell, purchase, and accumulate things, we do not possess them as much as they possess us. It is the story of Americans using things to think about themselves.Brown's captivating new study explores the roots of modern America's fascination with things and the problem that objects posed for American literature at the turn of the century. For Bill Brown, the tale of that possession is something stranger than the history of a culture of consumption.
Brown shows how crucial novels of the time made things not a solution to problems, but problems in their own right. This was an era when the invention, production, distribution, and consumption of things suddenly came to define a national culture. Writers such as Mark
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