Fictions of commodity culture : from the Victorian to the postmodern
Christoph Lindner explains how commodity, as a construct of capitalism, created and sustained a culture of its own in the 19th century and how that culture, still with us, has persisted and evolved since then.
Criticism, interpretation, etc
190 s
9780754634836, 0754634833
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Can't get no satisfaction - the world of commodities; Down and out in Gaskell's industrial novels; Thackeray's gourmand - carnivals of consumption in "Vanity Fair"; Trollope's material girl - gender and capitalism in "The Eustace Diamonds"; Damaged goods - decay in Conrad's "The Secret Agent"; Shop till you drop - retail therapy in DeLillo's "White Noise"; Postscript - "Step right up".