Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France
Author:   Rosalind H. Williams
Publisher:   University of California Press
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9780520074248


Pages:   463
Publication Date:   14 January 1991
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   Rosalind H. Williams
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 23.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.726kg
ISBN:  

9780520074248


ISBN 10:   0520074246
Pages:   463
Publication Date:   14 January 1991
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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"""""Dream Worlds makes a genuine contribution to understanding how hopes and desires came to be invested in goods.""--""New York Times Book Review"


Dream Worlds makes a genuine contribution to understanding how hopes and desires came to be invested in goods. -- New York Times Book Review


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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.

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