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Deficits and Desires : Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth-Century Literature.
"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 n...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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." "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." "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."--Jacket. |
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| Notas: | ""Contents"" |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (248 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804780063 0804780064 |