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Just Looking (Routledge Revivals) Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
By Rachel Bowlby
Copyright 1985
204 Pages
by
Routledge
204 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Commerce and Femininity 3. Making up Women: Gissing’s Eve’s Ransom 4. Starring: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie 5. "Traffic in Her Desires": Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames 6. Culture and the Book Business 7. Making it: Gissing’s New Grub Street 8. The Artist as Adman: Dreiser’s The "Genius" 9. Working: Zola’s L’Oeuvre
Biography
Rachel Bowlby
'Well researched, excellently written, highly intelligent and of central relevance to current literary-theoretical preoccupations.’ – Terry Eagleton
‘Written at that frontier or cross-roads where literary study and sociological or political study are being brought together, this is an important book, one remarkable for its penetration and economy.’ – J. Hillis Miller
