Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
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.
188 pages, 11 editions
English edition · First published 1985 by Routledge · ISBN 9780415572798
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11 editions
English
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9780415572798 This page
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9786612974083
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9781136999567
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9780203855720
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9781282974081
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing, and Zola · Routledge · 2010 · ISBN 9781136999574
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Taylor & Francis Group · 2009 · ISBN 9781136999543
- Just Looking (Routledge Revivals) Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Routledge · 2009 · ISBN 9780415573153
- Just Looking (Routledge Revivals): Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Routledge · 2009 · ISBN 9781136999529
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Methuen · 1985 · ISBN 9780416378108
- Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola · Methuen · 1985 · ISBN 9780416378009
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