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Article: Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo.
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- Studies in the Novel
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- June 22, 2002
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EBY, CLARE VIRGINIA. Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1998. 228 pp. $34.95.
In Dreiser and Veblen, Saboteurs of the Status Quo, Clare Eby offers an engaging examination of the "cultural criticism" afforded by Theodore Dreiser's novels and Thorstein Veblen's economic and sociologic theories. Stressing the interdisciplinarity of each author's work, Eby's project is to "read Veblen through Dreiser and Dreiser through Veblen" to show the ways in which "literature and social science can merge in cultural criticism" (6). Both writers were deeply committed to commenting upon capitalism and consumer culture, and one ...