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Author Bowlby, Rachel, 1957-

Title Just Looking : Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (131 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
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
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 pract
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Subject Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945 -- Political and social views
Gissing, George, 1857-1903 -- Political and social views
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902 -- Political and social views
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Zola, Émile, 1840-1902
Fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Naturalism in literature.
Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Consumption (Economics) in literature.
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Fiction
Naturalism in literature
Political and social views
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203855720
0203855728