Nicholas Brown is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Imre Szeman is assistant professor of English at McMaster University.

This sparkling and unusually coherent collection of essays emphasizes the American reception and adaptation of Bourdieu's work. It shows how Bourdieu has been resisted and embraced and discusses how his terms and methods might be both used and modified by American academics. Theoretical reflections are productively complemented by empirical investigations of non-canonical and popular artistic expressions and by discussions of the position of women in Bourdieu's thought.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Fieldwork in CultureChapter 2 Bourdieu’s RefusalChapter 3 Resistance, Recuperation, and Reflexivity: The Limits of a ParadigmChapter 4 Anglicizing BourdieuChapter 5 Bourdieu and Common SenseChapter 6 Value and Capital in Bourdieu and MarxChapter 7 Cultural Studies Bourdieu’s Way: Women, Leadership, and Feminist TheoryChapter 8 Habitus Revisited, Notes and Queries from the FieldChapter 9 Pierre Bourdieu’s Fields of Cultural Production: A Case Study of Modern JazzChapter 10 Romancing Bourdieu: A Case Study in Gender Politics in the Literary FieldChapter 11 The Prestige of the Oppressed: Symbolic Capital in a Guilt EconomyChapter 12 Space, Time, and John GardnerChapter 13 Passport to Duke

Nicholas Brown is assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois-Chicago. Imre Szeman is assistant professor of English at McMaster University.

This sparkling and unusually coherent collection of essays emphasizes the American reception and adaptation of Bourdieu's work. It shows how Bourdieu has been resisted and embraced and discusses how his terms and methods might be both used and modified by American academics. Theoretical reflections are productively complemented by empirical investigations of non-canonical and popular artistic expressions and by discussions of the position of women in Bourdieu's thought.

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Fieldwork in CultureChapter 2 Bourdieu’s RefusalChapter 3 Resistance, Recuperation, and Reflexivity: The Limits of a ParadigmChapter 4 Anglicizing BourdieuChapter 5 Bourdieu and Common SenseChapter 6 Value and Capital in Bourdieu and MarxChapter 7 Cultural Studies Bourdieu’s Way: Women, Leadership, and Feminist TheoryChapter 8 Habitus Revisited, Notes and Queries from the FieldChapter 9 Pierre Bourdieu’s Fields of Cultural Production: A Case Study of Modern JazzChapter 10 Romancing Bourdieu: A Case Study in Gender Politics in the Literary FieldChapter 11 The Prestige of the Oppressed: Symbolic Capital in a Guilt EconomyChapter 12 Space, Time, and John GardnerChapter 13 Passport to Duke