Elizabeth Outka

Consuming Traditions

Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

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Produktbeschreibung

Consuming Traditions examines the curious relationship between modernism and consumer culture through readings of key texts by George Bernard Shaw, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and others.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199921843
• ISBN-10: 0199921849
• Artikelnr.: 35302558

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Outka is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She has published essays on modernism and British culture in Modernism/modernity, NOVEL and other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* 1. Selling Authenticity
* Part One: Commodified Nostalgia and the Country Aesthetic
* 2. The Past is a Present Country: Model Towns and Commercial Utopias
* 3. Buying Time: E. M. Forster and the Neo-Nostalgic Home
* Part Two: Urban Authenticities
* 4. The Vanishing Act of Commercialism: Selfridges, Modernity, and the
Purified Marketplace
* 5. "Lustrous Behind Glass": Woolf, Window Shopping, and Authentic
Display
* Conclusion: Modernist Excursions