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- catalog abstract "Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts is a literary history that shows how the idea of America as the land of capitalist enterprise - where rewards are always commensurate with productivity - came to flourish in our national literature. Covering the colonial period, the early national period, and the Jacksonian period, this study examines a variety of writers, including many of our best early writers of fiction, who chronicle and celebrate - and sometimes condemn - the vision of America as the land of economic opportunity.".
- catalog contributor b10266601.
- catalog created "c1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "c1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1996.".
- catalog description "Capitalism in Early American Literature: Texts and Contexts is a literary history that shows how the idea of America as the land of capitalist enterprise - where rewards are always commensurate with productivity - came to flourish in our national literature. Covering the colonial period, the early national period, and the Jacksonian period, this study examines a variety of writers, including many of our best early writers of fiction, who chronicle and celebrate - and sometimes condemn - the vision of America as the land of economic opportunity.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-180) and index.".
- catalog description "The American colonists' attitudes towards work and wealth : Early colonial discussions of the promise and the peril of capitalism ; Ben Franklin and the American paradigm ; Crèvecoeur's critique of American capitalism -- The new nation and the emerging American economic novel : Shaping the new country, class struggle and the founding fathers ; Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern chivalry, a conservative views "the man of ability" ; The failure of capitalism in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond and Arthur Mervyn ; "Some people just don't belong," Rebecca Rush's Kelroy and conservative sensibility -- The strident voices of the Jacksonian period : Jacksonian democracy and the modern temper ; James Fenimore Cooper and the capitalist as hero ; Charles Frederick Briggs's darkening vision of the American dream ; Frederick Douglass's struggle for free market participation -- The early American legacy and the modern economic novel.".
- catalog extent "183 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Capitalism in early American literature.".
- catalog identifier "0820428957 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Capitalism in early American literature.".
- catalog isPartOf "Studies on themes and motifs in literature, 1056-3907 ; v. 27".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "c1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Peter Lang,".
- catalog relation "Capitalism in early American literature.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "813/.109355 20".
- catalog subject "American literature Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "American literature Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Capitalism and literature United States History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Capitalism and literature United States History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Economics in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS195.C35 P37 1996".
- catalog subject "Wealth in literature.".
- catalog subject "Work in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The American colonists' attitudes towards work and wealth : Early colonial discussions of the promise and the peril of capitalism ; Ben Franklin and the American paradigm ; Crèvecoeur's critique of American capitalism -- The new nation and the emerging American economic novel : Shaping the new country, class struggle and the founding fathers ; Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modern chivalry, a conservative views "the man of ability" ; The failure of capitalism in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond and Arthur Mervyn ; "Some people just don't belong," Rebecca Rush's Kelroy and conservative sensibility -- The strident voices of the Jacksonian period : Jacksonian democracy and the modern temper ; James Fenimore Cooper and the capitalist as hero ; Charles Frederick Briggs's darkening vision of the American dream ; Frederick Douglass's struggle for free market participation -- The early American legacy and the modern economic novel.".
- catalog title "Capitalism in early American literature : texts and contexts / Lynn A. Parks.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".