Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern
Christoph Lindner
190 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0754634833
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Language: English
Publish: September 29, 2003
What is retail therapy? Why is shopping fun? Where does desire end and ideology begin in a world of mass consumption? These are some of the central questions of Fictions of Commodity Culture, a wide-ranging study of consumerism and its literary representation from the Victorian period through to the postmodern era.