Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola (Routledge Revivals)

By: Rachel Bowlby

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Synopsis: 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. Drawing on structural, psychoanalytic and Marxist-feminist theory, Rachel Bowlby retrieves a relatively neglected literary area for contemporary political and theoretical concerns, re-establishing the naturalist novel as a rich source for feminists, literary theorists and cultural historians.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 188 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781136999567
Related ISBNs:: 9780415572798, 9780203855720, 9780415573153
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/06/20
Copyrighted By:: Rachel Bowlby
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.