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050 00 $aPS228.C65$bT73 2001
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100 1 $aTratner, Michael.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88299879
245 10 $aDeficits and desires :$beconomics and sexuality in twentieth-century literature /$cMichael Tratner.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c2001.
300 $a238 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [223]-234) and index.
505 00 $gPt. 1.$tEscaping Restrictions.$g1.$tThe Freedom to Borrow in Ulysses.$g2.$tThe Author as Consumer: the Financier.$g3.$tLegitimate and Illegitimate Bonds: The Great Gatsby --$gPt. 2.$tNew Deals.$g4.$tConsumer Cooperation, Gender Cooperation: Virginia Woolf's Answer to War.$g5.$tLove Versus Usury: The National Cures of Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams.$g6.$tCultural Autonomy and Consumerism: Their Eyes Were Watching God.$tCoda: Accepting Deficits.$g7.$tCredit as Faith: Normalizing Debt in the Movies of Frank Capra.
520 1 $a"This book examines the effects on literary works of a little-noted economic development in the early twentieth century: individuals and governments alike began to regard going into debt as a normal and even valuable part of life. The author also shows, surprisingly, that the economic changes normalizing debt paralleled and intersected with changes in sexual discourse.".
520 8 $a"In Keynesian economics and consumerism, governments and individuals were actually encouraged to borrow and to spend more in order to increase demand and keep money circulating. In twentieth-century sexual treatises, people were similarly encouraged to indulge their desires, as pent-up states were considered as deleterious to the physical body as they were to the economic.".
520 8 $a"In this book, the author traces these social transformations by examining twentieth-century literary works and films that are structured around contrasts between repressive and expansive forms of economics and sexuality."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049
650 0 $aConsumption (Economics) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003885
650 0 $aEconomics and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEconomics and literature$zGreat Britain$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008103188
650 0 $aEconomics in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85040871
650 0 $aDesire in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95007416
650 0 $aSex in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85120618
852 00 $bglx$hPS228.C65$iT73 2001
852 00 $bbar$hPS228.C65$iT73 2001