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Introduction: Production to Consumptionhe individual scale) has come to carry unfair implications of failure, decay, a radical loss of energy and direction. ‘Change’, ‘transformation’, ‘development’, ‘progress’, ‘renewal’, these are the affirmative terms that pepper debates, magazine reports, political pronouncements. Of course, the rhet

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The Literary Response (,)) are romantic in conception and form and concern themselves with man and nature on the frontier, that is to say, on the periphery of normal social life. Herman Melville’s . (1851) is an epic romance whose heroes are those we would expect of mid-nineteenth-century America — the hunters, exploiters a

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Class and the Consumption Ethic: Dreiser’s low ‘almost any point of view of itself’. Its rare quality of multifaceted massiveness has fathered a large number of critical studies which all acknowledge Clyde Griffiths’s representative stature but make only vague gestures towards its origins. This imprecision is due to an individualist emphasis