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Author: Elizabeth Outka (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Richmond)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 16.00cm
Weight: 0.465kg
ISBN: 9780195372694
ISBN 10: 0195372697
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 04 December 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Undergraduate
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
a detailed scholarly read Rebecca Leach, Times Higher Education
""Guilty pleasures become serious virtues in Outka's transformative account of 'commodified authenticity,' that prodigy by which modernist culture gave us such things as gorgeous fakeries, original copies, and mass-produced purity. Modern art, modern commerce: in this brilliant book, the two reveal all their most delicious collaborations and all the mass benefits of mass culture. Consuming Traditions brings us the best of both worlds. It is the best kind of book-one that wholly rethinks early twentieth-century culture and discovers much new to love about it.""-Jesse Matz, Kenyon College ""Outka has unearthed treasures in numerous archives, from town planning and architecture to department stores and periodicals. As she shows in fresh readings of Shaw, Wells, James, Forster, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf, high modernism itself thrived on the contradiction that mass-produced authenticity (like heritage today) was its stock in trade.""-Alison Booth, University of Virginia ""A bold, consequential rereading. Against familiar accounts of modernism's relations with consumer culture, Outka argues for the productive investment of key culture-makers in the ongoing contradictions underpinning commodity logic. Not only are her readings of such figures as James, Forster, Lawrence, and Woolf revelatory; they make such keywords as 'authenticity' and 'tradition' available for new and richer engagement."" -Sara Blair, University of Michigan ""Consuming Traditions makes a crucial contribution to modernist scholarship...other scholars will surely build on the ground she has ingeniously broken. I expect the phrase ""commodified authentic"" to enter, very quickly, the regular vocabulary of modernist studies."" --Modernism/Modernity ""Invigorating and important."" --Clio ""Consuming Traditions covers an impressive amount of ground...This book is worth reading for anyone interested in Woolf or in British modern literature more generally--as well as for those interested in the history of consumer culture."" --Woolf Studies Annual ""Consuming Traditions shows us that cultural studies still has much to offer scholars of modernist literature."" --Modern Fiction Studies ""Outka concludes that now, more than ever, we need to acknowledge the danger, but also the potential, of the commodified authentic. To engage with it critically, in the kind of work Outka has undertaken in Consuming Traditions, is to open up possibilities for freedom and creativity."" --Virginia Woolf Miscellany
Author Information
Elizabeth Outka is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She has published essays on modernism and British culture in Modernism/modernity, NOVEL and other publications.
