Front cover image for The material unconscious : American amusement, Stephen Crane & the economies of play

The material unconscious : American amusement, Stephen Crane & the economies of play

Bill Brown (Author)
Print Book, English, 1996
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1996
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 335 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 24 cm
9780674553804, 9780674553811, 0674553802, 0674553810
35008114
Abbreviationsxiv
Introduction: Recreation and Representation1(26)
Economies of Play
The Material Unconscious
Spacing: Realism, Recreation, Romance
Stephen Crane
1 Recreational Space: Methodism and Its Discontents
27(44)
Rational and Irrational Recreation
The Pleasure Machine
Visibility
The Machine in the Garden
2 Deep Play
71(54)
Recreational Time
The Economic Problem of Masochism
Melodramatic Economy
The Chance-Thing and the Logic of New Historicism
Interlude: The Agony of Play in "The Open Boat"
103(22)
3 The War Game: Bodies in Motion, Bodies at Rest
125(42)
Spectatorship
Embodiment
The Photographic Body
Exquisite Correspondents
4 American Childhood and Stephen Crane's Toys
167(32)
Producing the Child
Producing the Toy
Economies of Childhood
Recreational Realism
5 Monstrosity
199(48)
Museums, Monsters, Minstrels
Typology, Faciality, Monstrosity
Teratology in the Field of Vision
Monsters and Modernism
Coda
247(10)
Uneven Development
Henry's Fate
Notes257(68)
Index325