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Consuming traditions : modernity, modernism, and the commodified authentic / Elizabeth Outka.
LIBRA PR478.M6 O87 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Outka, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Marketing.
- History.
- Commercial products--Psychological aspects.
- Commercial products.
- Consumption (Economics)--Psychological aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Great Britain.
- Material culture in literature.
- Nostalgia in literature.
- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
- Commerce in literature.
- Marketing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: Selling Authenticity 3
- Part I Commodified Nostalgia and the Country Aesthetic
- 2 The Past Is a Present Country: Model Towns and Commercial Utopias 25
- 3 Buying Time: E. M. Forster and the Neo-nostalgic Home 68
- Part II Urban Authenticities
- 4 The Vanishing Act of Commercialism: Selfridges, Modernity, and the Purified Marketplace 99
- 5 "Lustrous behind Glass": Woolf, Window Shopping, and Authentic Display 128
- 6 Conclusion: Modernist Excursions 155.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references ( pages 199-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780195372694
- 0195372697
- OCLC:
- 213495227
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