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Author: Simone Weil Davis
Publisher: Duke University Press
Imprint: Duke University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.549kg
ISBN: 9780822324461
ISBN 10: 0822324466
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 16 March 2000
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A strikingly thoughtful study of a crucible period in American cultural and literary history. Bristling with intelligence, highly engaged, and critically informed, Living Up to the Ads investigates the shifting nature of selfhood as commodity capitalism and public relations converge on the subject. -Jennifer Wicke, author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading A very stimulating book. Davis explores the complexity of the relations between advertising and personal identity, and between advertising and literature, with a lively, sharp, idiosyncratic style. -Rachel Bowlby, author of Shopping with Freud Davis offers a new and provocative perspective on a cultural shift that, even in the 1920s, was marked as much by its subtle presence in fiction as it was by its heavy-handed presence in print media. This book will contribute a great deal to interdisciplinary studies of commodity culture. -Jennifer Scanlon, author of Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture
A strikingly thoughtful study of a crucible period in American cultural and literary history. Bristling with intelligence, highly engaged, and critically informed, Living Up to the Ads investigates the shifting nature of selfhood as commodity capitalism and public relations converge on the subject. --Jennifer Wicke, author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading Davis offers a new and provocative perspective on a cultural shift that, even in the 1920s, was marked as much by its subtle presence in fiction as it was by its heavy-handed presence in print media. This book will contribute a great deal to interdisciplinary studies of commodity culture. --Jennifer Scanlon, author of Inarticulate Longings: The Ladies' Home Journal, Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture A very stimulating book. Davis explores the complexity of the relations between advertising and personal identity, and between advertising and literature, with a lively, sharp, idiosyncratic style. --Rachel Bowlby, author of Shopping with Freud
"""A strikingly thoughtful study of a crucible period in American cultural and literary history. Bristling with intelligence, highly engaged, and critically informed, Living Up to the Ads investigates the shifting nature of selfhood as commodity capitalism and public relations converge on the subject.""--Jennifer Wicke, author of Advertising Fictions: Literature, Advertisement, and Social Reading ""Davis offers a new and provocative perspective on a cultural shift that, even in the 1920s, was marked as much by its subtle presence in fiction as it was by its heavy-handed presence in print media. This book will contribute a great deal to interdisciplinary studies of commodity culture.""--Jennifer Scanlon, author of Inarticulate Longings: ""The Ladies' Home Journal,"" Gender, and the Promises of Consumer Culture ""A very stimulating book. Davis explores the complexity of the relations between advertising and personal identity, and between advertising and literature, with a lively, sharp, idiosyncratic style.""--Rachel Bowlby, author of Shopping with Freud"
Author Information
Simone Weil Davis is Assistant Professor of English at Long Island University.
