Dream Worlds - Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France

Informationen zum Autor Rosalind H. Williams is Dean for Undergraduate Education and Metcalf Professor of Writing at MIT and author of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology! Society! and the Imagination . Klappentext In "Dream Worlds! " Rosalind Williams"" examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society! providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France. Zusammenfassung Examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations  Acknowledgments  1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution  Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles  2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption  3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption  4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption  5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption  Part Two: The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption  6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer  7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism  8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption  9. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution  Notes  Selected Bibliography  Index

Product details

• Authors: Rosalind H. Williams
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.1991
• EAN: 9780520074248
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07424-8
• No. of pages: 463
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 233 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consumer Behavior, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Consumerism