A Benjamin Monad of Guy Debord & W.D. Howells?s The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885); or, Individual & Collective Life & Status as Spectacle

Abstract

This article illuminates Howellss early-style The Rise of Silas Lapham as an exemplary text of Walter Benjamins monad via its forceful blending of Benjamin?s texts and of the foregoing Howells-novel.