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What Miss Kilman's Petticoat Means: Virginia Woolf, Shopping, and Spectacle
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The most comfortable ground within literary criticism for such studies has been the actual production and consumption of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as mentioned in this paper, and Modernism's rejection of realism and its celebration of the artist as an alienated personage producing an arcane product, superior to and outside the common marketplace would seem to have set it in opposi-Abstract:
Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and James Joyce have all recently been observed through the \"lens of consumption\" (Wicke 122). This is a new development in consumer/commodity1 critique because the most comfortable ground within literary criticism for such studies has been the actual production and consumption of the novel in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.2 Modernism's rejection of realism and its celebration of the artist as an alienated personage producing an arcane product—superior to and outside the common marketplace—would seem to have set it in opposi-read more
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The Edinburgh companion to Virginia Woolf and the arts
TL;DR: The most cited editions of Virginia Woolf and Abbreviations List of Figures List of Plates as discussed by the authors are the following: 1) Aesthetics 1.1.2.
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[Book review] the commodity culture of Victorian England, advertising and spectacle, 1851-1914
TL;DR: Richards as discussed by the authors provides a valuable account of the interaction between cultural and business development in Victorian England by focusing on the evolution of advertising and argues that the British developed a new type of culture in the mid and late 19th century, a new way of thinking and living increasingly based upon the possession of material goods, commodities.
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Just Looking: Consumer Culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
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Back to Bloomsbury
TL;DR: The Bloomsbury Enthusiastic: What was she like? they ask as discussed by the authors, and I prefer to duck the question from the daunting and amiable creature, the bloomsburger enthusiast.
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Captains Of Consciousness Advertising And The Social Roots Of The Consumer Culture
TL;DR: In this paper, Ewen provides a history of the ways in which business has refined its search for new consumers by ingratiating itself into Americans' everyday lives and provides a timely and still-fascinating critique of life in a consumer culture.
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Social communication in advertising : persons, products & images of well-being
TL;DR: Social Communication in Advertising as discussed by the authors is the first comprehensive study of advertising in our society and culture, and it shows how advertising encompasses the three most influential domains of our lives; industrial technology, popular culture and mass media.
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The diary of Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf,Anne Olivier Bell +1 more
TL;DR: The diary of Virginia Woolf (1915) as mentioned in this paper is a collection of diary entries written by the author of The Diary of V. Woolf and published by the National Archives of the United Kingdom.
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Satisfaction Guaranteed: The Making of the American Mass Market
TL;DR: This sweeping history provides the reader with a better understanding of America's consumer society, obsession with shopping, and devotion to brands as mentioned in this paper, focusing on the advertising campaigns of CocaHill who controlled the male he, just a low.
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Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France
TL;DR: 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 as mentioned in this paper, with a focus on women.