Miranda El-Rayess

Henry James and the Culture of Consumption (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores Henry James's imaginative engagements with the burgeoning consumer culture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on his hitherto neglected fascination with shops and the shopping experience. Examining a wide range of the author's fiction and non-fiction in the context of developments such as the rise of the department store, the growing public presence of women shoppers and shop workers, and the increasing sophistication of commodity display and advertising, the book argues that consumer desire constitutes an integral part of James's understanding of modern subjectivity. It also demonstrates that the structures and strategies of commodity culture are deeply embedded in his style, his aesthetic and his conception of authorship. The study offers new readings of familiar and less familiar texts, and includes a wealth of original historical documentation that has been gleaned from contemporary newspapers, periodicals, advertising manuals, sales catalogues and guidebooks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107720831
• Artikelnr.: 52952449

Autorenporträt

Miranda El-Rayess is Lecturer in Writing in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University in London, and Postdoctoral Tutor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has published articles on James in Critical Quarterly and Symbiosis, contributed a chapter to David McWhirter's Henry James in Context (Cambridge University Press, 2010), and reviewed works of literary criticism for the Times Literary Supplement. She is currently co-editing The Beast in the Jungle and Other Tales with Neil Reeve for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. 'Hungry gazes through clear plates': the artist at the shop window
2. Women behind glass
3. Women in the city
4. Shopping for American masculinity
5. The other side of the counter
Epilogue: 'This furnishing forth of my Volumes'.