Marianne in the market : envisioning consumer society in fin-de-siècle France / Lisa Tiersten.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiersten, Lisa, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women consumers--France--History--19th century.

Women consumers.

Consumption (Economics)--France--History--19th century.

Consumption (Economics).

Middle class--France--History--19th century.

Middle class.

Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

History.

France.

Physical Description:

xiii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [2001]

Summary:

A study of the transformation of consumerism in 19th century France and its effect on women.

Contents:

Part I. The Problem of the Marketplace

1. Marianne in the Department Store: Commercial Paris and the Civic Vision of the Republic 15

2. "The Mercantile Spirit of Our Epoch": The Aesthetic Crisis of the Republic 55

Part II. Civilizing Consumption

3. Being Bourgeois: The Rise of Aesthetic Individuality 89

4. Marketplace Modernism: Reinventing the Chic Parisienne 121

5. The Chic Interior: Marketplace Modernism in the Bourgeois Home 150

6. Consumer Citizenship and the Republicanization of the Market 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-310) and index.

ISBN:

0520225295

OCLC:

45446273