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Frontmatter
and Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Subjectivity, Psychological Politics, and the American Dream
Chapter 1 Woman as Fetish:
Self-Reification and the Aesthetic Commodity in Edith Wharton's House of
Mirth
Chapter 2 The Romance of the
Commodity: The Cancellation of Identity in F. Scott Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby
Chapter 3 The Commodity Comes
Home to Roost: Repression, Regression,
and Death in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman
Chapter 4 Subject as Commodity
Sign: Existential Interiority on Trial in Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49
Chapter 5 Beyond Being and
Nothingness: The Corporate Commodity in Joseph Heller's Something
Happened
Conclusion: Commodity Psychology in
American Literature and Culture
Notes
Bibliography
Index