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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808021703321

Autore

Bowlby Rachel <1957->

Titolo

Just looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola / / Rachel Bowlby

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2010

ISBN

1-136-99956-6

1-136-99957-4

1-282-97408-4

9786612974083

0-203-85572-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (131 p.)

Collana

Routledge revivals

Disciplina

809.39355

Soggetti

Fiction - 19th century - History and criticism

Fiction - 20th century - History and criticism

Naturalism in literature

Consumption (Economics) in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1985 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title01; Copyright01; Title02; Copyright02; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; A note on texts and translations; Epigraph; 1 Introduction; 2 Commerce and femininity; 3 Making up women: Gissing's; 4 Starring: Dreiser's Sister Carrie; 5 "Traffic in her desires": Zola's; 6 Culture and the book business; 7 Making it: Gissing's; 8 The artist as adman: Dreiser's; 9 Working: Zola's; Postscript; Notes; Short bibliography of secondary works; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 practices.<