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

Keywords

• Benjamin
• Monad
• Debord
• Howells?s
• Silas
• Lapham
• Individual
• Collective
• Status
• Spectacle