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The Doubleness of Things

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From: Novel
Date: 20041001
Author:Merish, Lori

The Doubleness of Things BILLBROWN, A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature (U of Chicago P, 2003), pp. 245, $32.00.

Bill Brown is in love with "things." His first book. The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play (Harvard UP, 1996), was a richly imaginative assessment of how turn-of-thc-century material culture-things like cash registers, amusement park rides, Kodak cameras, and children's toys-pressured literary inscription, and how literary texts can be considered "repositories] of disparate and fragmentary, unevenly developed, ...

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