- Title
- Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald
- Author/Creator
- Richard Godden
- Publication Details
- A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900-1950, pp.181-201
- Annotation
- Considers Big Two-Hearted River, The Age of Innocence (1920), and The Great Gatsby (1925) within an economic framework, contending that applying a consumerist lens to Hemingway s work undermines his ethic of writing in concrete terms by abstracting what was once natural and real. Connects the three texts by locating Hemingway s trout, Wharton s Worth dresses, and Fitzgerald s portrayal of Gatsby s smile as commoditized objects, and discusses the temporal manipulation of these items as goods in a shop window.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015132398203691
Book chapter
Money and Things: Capitalist Realism, Anxiety, and Social Critique in Works by Hemingway, Wharton, and Fitzgerald
A Companion to the Modern American Novel, 1900-1950, pp.181-201
2009
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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