Sacramental Shopping - Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton, and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

Informationen zum Autor SARAH WAY SHERMAN is an associate professor of English and American studies at the University of New Hampshire. Klappentext Written a generation apart! Little Women (1868) and The House of Mirth (1905) share a deep concern with materialism! moral development! and self-construction. Placing both novels at the historical intersection of modern consumer culture and older religious discourse on materialism and identity! Sarah Way Sherman analyses how Alcott and Wharton rework traditional Protestant discourse to interpret their heroines' struggle with modern consumerism. Zusammenfassung Illuminates modern consumer culture and its challenges to American identity and values in two classic novels

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• Authors: Sarah Way Sherman, SHERMAN SARAH WAY
• Publisher: University pr of new england
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 22
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2013
• EAN: 9781611684223
• ISBN: 978-1-61168-422-3
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Becoming Modern: New Nineteent; Becoming Modern: New Nineteent
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies