Consuming Traditions

Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-19-537269-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 520 g

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might be separated from the mass market. Presenting a lively, unique study of what she terms the "commodified authentic," Elizabeth Outka explores this crucial but overlooked development in the history of modernity with a piercing look at consumer culture and the marketing of authenticity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Outka, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Umwelt-, Konsum- und Werbepsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- 1: Selling Authenticity

- Part One: Commodified Nostalgia and the Country Aesthetic

- 2: The Past is a Present Country: Model Towns and Commercial Utopias

- 3: Buying Time: E. M. Forster and the Neo-Nostalgic Home

- Part Two: Urban Authenticities

- 4: The Vanishing Act of Commercialism: Selfridges, Modernity, and the Purified Marketplace

- 5: "Lustrous Behind Glass": Woolf, Window Shopping, and Authentic Display

- Conclusion: Modernist Excursions

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Outka is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She has published essays on modernism and British culture in Modernism/modernity, NOVEL and other publications.