Catherine Waters

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words (eBook, ePUB)

The Social Life of Goods

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain predominantly middle-class readers. He filled the journal with articles about various commodities, many of which raise questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services. Although studies of Victorian commodity culture have tended to focus on the novel, scholarly interest in Victorian periodicals and material culture has been prompted by recognition of the major role the press played in disseminating knowledge and information about the proliferating world of goods. At the same time, periodicals like Household Words were themselves commodities that relied on their marketability for survival. This book provides a cultural study of the journal's representation of commodities that records the changing relationship between people and things exposed in the contributors' attempts to come to terms with the development of urban commodity culture at mid-century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351950411
• Artikelnr.: 49355564

Autorenporträt

Catherine Waters is a senior lecturer in English at the University of New England (New South Wales). She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (1997) and various articles on Victorian fiction and journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Advertising fictions
The genuine article, the sham and the problem of authenticity
'The key of the street'
'Men made by machinery'
Worldly goods
'Trading in death'
'Fashion in undress'
Bibliography
Index.