Dream Worlds : Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France / Rosalind H. Williams.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Rosalind H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumers--France--History.

Consumers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (488 p.) : 1 Frontisp, 23 figs.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1982]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In Dream Worlds, Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution

Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles

2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption

3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption

4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption

5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption

Part Two: The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption

6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer

7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism

8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption

9. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution

Notes

Selected Bibliography

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Williams, Rosalind Hays. Dream worlds, mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France.

ISBN:

9780520341555

0520341554

OCLC:

1224278415