Peter Gurney

Wanting and having (eBook, ePUB)

Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830-70

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nineteenth-century England witnessed the birth of capitalist consumerism. Early department stores, shopping arcades and provision shops of all kinds proliferated from the start of the Victorian period, testimony to greater diffusion of consumer goods. However, while the better off enjoyed having more material things, masses of the population were wanting even the basic necessities of life during the 'Hungry Forties' and well beyond. Based on a wealth of contemporary evidence and adopting an interdisciplinary approach, Wanting and having focuses particularly on the making of the working-class consumer in order to shed new light on key areas of major historical interest, including Chartism, the Anti-Corn Law League, the New Poor Law, popular liberalism and humanitarianism. It will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in the origins and significance of consumerism across a range of disciplines, including social and cultural history, literary studies, historical sociology and politics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526101815
• Artikelnr.: 48795788

Autorenporträt

Peter Gurney teaches British Social History at the University of Essex

Inhaltsangabe

1. 'A new order of things': mapping popular politics onto consumption 2.
'Rejoicing in potatoes': the politics of consumption during the 'Hungry
Forties' 3. 'The Andover Cannibalism': popular entitlement and the New Poor
Law 4. 'Yours in the cause of Democracy': democratic discourse and the
Chartist challenge 5. 'Consumers of their own productions': popular
radicalism and consumer organising 6. 'Please, sir, I want some more':
Dickens on working-class scarcity and middle-class excess 7. 'The Sublime
of the Bazaar': the religion of free trade and the making of modern
consumerism 8. 'The lion turned into a lamb': the consumer politics of
popular liberalism Index Epilogue: 'The Age of Veneer': the limits of
liberal consumerism