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Zusatztext 'Well researched! excellently written! highly intelligent and of central relevance to current literary-theoretical preoccupations.' - Terry Eagleton 'Written at that frontier or cross-roads where literary study and sociological or political study are being brought together! this is an important book! one remarkable for its penetration and economy.' - J. Hillis Miller Informationen zum Autor Rachel Bowlby Zusammenfassung Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, this work addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms 'commerce' and 'culture' which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Commerce and Femininity 3. Making up Women: Gissing’s Eve’s Ransom 4. Starring: Dreiser’s Sister Carrie 5. "Traffic in Her Desires": Zola’s Au Bonheur des Dames 6. Culture and the Book Business 7. Making it: Gissing’s New Grub Street 8. The Artist as Adman: Dreiser’s The "Genius" 9. Working: Zola’s L’Oeuvre

Summary

Focusing on novels by Theodore Dreiser, George Gissing and Emile Zola, this work addresses itself to a central paradox of the period: the perceived antithesis of the terms 'commerce' and 'culture' which emerged at a time which saw the actual drawing together of commercial and cultural practices.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Bowlby, Bowlby Rachel
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2009
• EAN: 9780415572798
• ISBN: 978-0-415-57279-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; History, Sociology, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM / Feminist, Humanities, Feminism & feminist theory, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Gender studies, gender groups, Feminism and feminist theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000