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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Series:

Routledge revivals.

Routledge revivals

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945--Political and social views.

Dreiser, Theodore.

Gissing, George, 1857-1903--Political and social views.

Gissing, George.

Zola, Émile, 1840-1902--Political and social views.

Zola, Émile.

Fiction--19th century--History and criticism.

Fiction.

Fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Naturalism in literature.

Consumption (Economics) in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (131 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

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 practices.<

Contents:

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

Notes:

First published in 1985 by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

1-136-99956-6

1-136-99957-4

1-282-97408-4

9786612974083

0-203-85572-8

9780203855720

OCLC:

609845503