A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature.(Book Review) From: CLIO | Date: September 22, 2004| Author: Mao, Douglas | COPYRIGHT 2004 Indiana University, Purdue University of Fort Wayne. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

A Sense of Things: The Object Matter of American Literature. By Bill Brown. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. xiii + 245 pages.

Among the literary texts given close attention in Bill Brown's new book, the earliest, Mark Twain's Prince and the Pauper, was published in 1881; the latest, Henry James's American Scene, in 1907. The interval between appears tailor-made for a study of the "object matter of American literature" because it so immediately evokes mat...