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The material unconscious : American amusement, Stephen Crane & the economies of play

Bill Brown (Author)
Within the ephemera of the everyday—old photographs, circus posters, iron toys—lies a challenge to America’s dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Brown recovers in the “material unconscious” of Stephen Crane’s work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s.
Print Book, English, 1996
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780674553804, 9780674553811, 0674553802, 0674553810
35008114
Abbreviations Introduction: Recreation and Representation Economies of Play The Material Unconscious Spacing: Realism, Recreation, Romance Stephen Crane Recreational Space: Methodism and Its Discontents Rational and Irrational Recreation The Pleasure Machine Visibility The Machine in the Garden Deep Play Recreational Time The Economic Problem of Masochism Melodramatic Economy The Chance-Thing and the Logic of New Historicism Interlude: The Agony of Play in "The Open Boat" The War Game: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest Spectatorship Embodiment The Photographic Body Exquisite Correspondents American Childhood and Stephen Crane's Toys Producing the Child Producing the Toy Economies of Childhood Recreational Realism Monstrosity Museums, Monsters, Minstrels Typology, Faciality, Monstrosity Teratology in the Field of Vision Monsters and Modernism Coda Uneven Development Henry's Fate Notes Index