Consuming Empire in U.S. Fiction, 1865–1930

Traces authors’ attitudes toward US economic expansionism through their fictional allusions to internationally-traded commodities Pairs global economic histories with close readings of commodities depicted in fiction in order to shed new light on the strategies that both well-known and under-studied authors use to critique US economic expansionism at the turn of the twentieth centuryEmploys an interdisciplinary methodology informed by literary studies, global history, art history, economic histo