Just Looking : Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola.
The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor & Francis,
2009
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| Series: | Routledge revivals.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | The spectacular development of early consumer society in Britain, France and the United States had a profound impact on constructions of femininity and masculinity, and commercial and cultural values in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, Just Looking, first published in 1985,€addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms "commerce" and "culture" which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural pract. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (131 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780203855720 0203855728 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
