Shopping and the senses, 1800-1970 : a sensory history of retail and consumption / / edited by Serena Dyer

• Pubblicazione: Cham, Switzerland : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (221 pages)
• Disciplina: 381.09
• Soggetto topico: Senses and sensation in architecture; Retail trade
• Persona (resp. second.): DyerSerena
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Sensorially Attentive Histories -- Shopping and the Senses -- Sensory Variety: Capitalism, Comfort, and Cacophony -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: "To Rub the Nose in the Tea": Smell, Taste, and the Assessment of Quality in Early Nineteenth-Century Tea Retail -- Report from the Select Committee on the Tea Duties -- Marketing Sensations -- Shopping for Taste -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3: An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop -- An Unpleasant Assault on the Senses -- A Welcome Stimulation of the Senses -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: The Politics of Sitting Down: Women, Cafés and Public Toilets in Dublin -- Suburbia, Omnibuses and Sitting Down -- Restaurants, Coffee Houses and Café Culture in Dublin -- Cafés, Orientalism and Respectability -- Public Lavatories, Women and Public Space -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Comfort and Safety: An Intersensorial History of Shopping Streets in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam and Brussels -- Windows and Pavements -- A New Sensorium -- Shopping in Practice -- Conclusion -- Reference List -- Published Primary Sources -- Cited Newspaper Articles -- Archival Sources -- Visual sources -- Chapter 6: The Cry of Silk: Erotomania and Fetishism in Au Bonheur des Dames -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: "Behind the Scenes of a Retail Shop": Sensory Experiences of Living-In, c. 1880s-1920s -- Living Spaces and Material Culture -- Work, Rest, and Play -- Sociability or Seclusion -- Public Health and Consumer Anxieties -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8: Synergy and Dissonance of the Senses: Negotiating Fashion Through Second-Hand Dealing, Jumble Sales and Street Market Trading in 1930s East End London -- The Consumer and Class Vacationing -- Locality and Locale -- Multisensory Persuasion. ; Negotiating Fashion: Visual Appearance and Haptic Experience -- Disruptive Retailing: Cross-sensory Communication -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Oral Histories -- Periodicals -- Census Records -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 9: "A Seductive Weapon … a Necessary Luxury": Shopping for 'Designer Perfume' During the Interwar Period -- Designer Perfumes and Their Packaging -- The Sensory Experience -- The Boutiques -- The Perfumeries -- A Seductive Weapon, a Necessary Luxury -- Works Cited -- Chapter 10: Be My Baby: Sensory Difference and Youth Identity in British Fashion Retail, 1945-1970 -- The Importance of Sensory Difference to the Teenage Consumer -- Fashion Boutiques and the Boundaries of Sensory Pleasure -- Beyond the Boutique: Disseminating Youth Identity Through Sensory References -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: Shopping and the senses, 1800-1970
• ISBN: 3-030-90335-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910552741003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II