Surveyors of Customs

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Surveyors of Customs is written by Joel Pfister and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0190493674 (ISBN 10) and 9780190493677 (ISBN 13).

Surveyors of Customs explores literature's insights into how America--its soft capitalism, its "democratized" inequality, its Americanization of power--"ticks." Joel Pfister argues that writers from Benjamin Franklin to Louise Erdrich can be read as critical "surveyors" of customs, culture, hegemony, capitalism's emotional logic, and much else.