Description
| Product ID: | 9780415573153 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Routledge Revivals |
| Title: | Just Looking (Routledge Revivals) |
| Subtitle: | Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola |
| Authors: | Author: Rachel Bowlby |
| Page Count: | 204 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, History, Cultural studies, Feminism and feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology, Humanities, Cultural studies, Feminism & feminist theory, Gender studies, gender groups, Sociology |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Routledge |
| Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2009-12-18 |