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Consuming traditions : modernity, modernism, and the commodified authentic / Elizabeth Outka.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Outka, Elizabeth.
- Series:
- Modernist literature & culture.
- Modernist literature & culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Modernism (Literature)--Great Britain.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Material culture in literature.
- Nostalgia in literature.
- Authenticity (Philosophy) in literature.
- Consumption (Economics)--Psychological aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Commercial products--Psychological aspects.
- Commercial products.
- Commerce in literature.
- Marketing--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Marketing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Presenting a lively, unique study of what she terms the 'commodified authentic,' Elizabeth Outka explores this crucial but overlooked development in the history of modernity with a piercing look at consumer culture and the marketing of authenticity in late 19th- and early 20th-century Britain.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Selling Authenticity; PART I: COMMODIFIED NOSTALGIA AND THE COUNTRY AESTHETIC; 2. The Past Is a Present Country: Model Towns and Commercial Utopias; 3. Buying Time: E. M. Forster and the Neo-nostalgic Home; PART II: URBAN AUTHENTICITIES; 4. The Vanishing Act of Commercialism: Selfridges, Modernity, and the Purified Marketplace; 5. "Lustrous behind Glass": Woolf, Window Shopping, and Authentic Display; 6. Conclusion: Modernist Excursions; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
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- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references ( p. 199-207) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045175-0
- 0-19-992184-9
- 9786611980795
- 0-19-970687-5
- 1-281-98079-X
- OCLC:
- 922954039
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