Introduction: Literature and consumption in nineteenth-century America / Nicole Maruo-Schröder & Christoph Ribbat -- Discourses of production and consumption in New England ''Factory Girl'' literature / Katja Kanzler -- A "Dish Offered to the Public" : the business of gender and class in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables / Nicole Maruo-Schröder -- "Where do you get your daguerreotypes?" : image, text, race, and a nineteenth-century businessman / Christoph Ribbat -- Sages and souvenirs : the origins of American literary tourism in Concord, Massachusetts / Klara Stephanie Szlezák -- American tourism and the emergence of mass culture : Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad / Arthur F. Redding -- Consuming Europe : Daisy Miller and the package tour / William M. Decker -- "Try my Tivoli" : conspicuous consumption in William Dean Howells's A Modern Instance / Simone Knewitz -- Sex and the city : gender and consumption in late nineteenth-century fiction / Eva Boesenberg