Author: Rémy Gilbert Saisselin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Examines how art was changed from aesthetic experience to consumer commodity during the nineteenth century, and discusses the changing social role of art
The Bourgeois and the Bibelot
Author: Rémy Gilbert Saisselin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Examines how art was changed from aesthetic experience to consumer commodity during the nineteenth century, and discusses the changing social role of art
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Examines how art was changed from aesthetic experience to consumer commodity during the nineteenth century, and discusses the changing social role of art
The Bibelot
Author: Thomas Bird Mosher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
The Bibelot
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
New Essays on The American
Author: Martha Banta
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521314497
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects Henry James' novel The American.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521314497
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This 1987 collection of essays casts light on this and other major aspects Henry James' novel The American.
The Ladies' Paradise
Author: Émile Zola
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191663492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191663492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
The Ladies' Paradise (Au Bonheur des Dames) recounts the spectacular development of the modern department store in late nineteenth century Paris. The store is a symbol of capitalism, of the modern city, and of the bourgeois family; it is emblematic of consumer culture and the changes in sexual attitudes and class relations taking place at the end of the century. Octave Mouret, the store's owner-manager, masterfully exploits the desires of his female customers. In his private life as much as in business he is the great seducer. But when he falls in love with the innocent Denise Baudu, he discovers she is the only one of the salesgirls who refuses to be commodified. This new translation of the eleventh book in the Rougon-Macquart cycle captures the spirit of one of Zola's greatest novels of the modern city. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author
Author: Sonia Hofkosh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521496544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Exploring a range of early nineteenth-century cultural materials from canonical poetry and critical prose to women's magazines and gift-book engravings, Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author offers new perspectives on the role of gender in Romanticism's defining paradigms of authorship. The Romantic author's claim to individual agency is complicated by its articulation in a market system perceived to be impelled in large part by fantasies of female desire - by what women read and write, what they buy and sell, how they look, and where they look for pleasure. These studies in the contested public spaces of literary labour elaborate the fundamental, if invisible, function of the woman as embodiment of authorial ambivalence in writing by Austen, Byron, Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Sarah Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and others.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521496544
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Exploring a range of early nineteenth-century cultural materials from canonical poetry and critical prose to women's magazines and gift-book engravings, Sexual Politics and the Romantic Author offers new perspectives on the role of gender in Romanticism's defining paradigms of authorship. The Romantic author's claim to individual agency is complicated by its articulation in a market system perceived to be impelled in large part by fantasies of female desire - by what women read and write, what they buy and sell, how they look, and where they look for pleasure. These studies in the contested public spaces of literary labour elaborate the fundamental, if invisible, function of the woman as embodiment of authorial ambivalence in writing by Austen, Byron, Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Sarah Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, Keats, Mary Shelley, William Wordsworth, and others.
The Purchase of the Past
Author: Tom Stammers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108478840
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Offers a broad and vivid overview of the culture of collecting in France over the long nineteenth-century.
The Other Mary Shelley
Author: Audrey Fisch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195360230
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Although Frankenstein is now widely taught in classes on Romanticism, little attention has been paid to the considerable corpus of Mary Shelley's other works. Indeed the excitement of the last decade at feminist approaches to Frankenstein has ironically obscured the persona of its author. This collection of essays, written by a preeminent group of Romantic scholars, sketches a portrait of the "other Mary Shelley": the writer and intellectual who recognized the turbulent interplay among issues of family, gender, and society, and whose writings resonate strongly in the setting of contemporary politics, culture, and feminism. By analyzing a previously neglected body of novels, novellas, reviews, travel writing, essays, letters, biographies, and tales, and by emphasizing Mary Shelley's shrewd assessment of Romanticism, the essays in this volume offer a ground-breaking evaluation of one of the foremost cultural critics of the nineteenth century.
Bodies and Machines (Routledge Revivals)
Author: Mark Seltzer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317570928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and naturalist writing, such as the work of Hawthorne and Henry James, and the discourses which inform it: from scouting manuals and the programmes of systematic management to accounts of sexual biology and the rituals of consumer culture. He explores other mass-produced and mass-consumed cultural forms, including visual representations such as composite photographs, scale models, and the astonishing iconography of standardization.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317570928
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Bodies and Machines is a striking and persuasive examination of the body-machine complex and its effects on the modern American cultural imagination. Bodies and Machines, first published in 1992, explores the links between techniques of representation and social and scientific technologies of power in a wide range of realist and naturalist discourses and practices. Seltzer draws on realist and naturalist writing, such as the work of Hawthorne and Henry James, and the discourses which inform it: from scouting manuals and the programmes of systematic management to accounts of sexual biology and the rituals of consumer culture. He explores other mass-produced and mass-consumed cultural forms, including visual representations such as composite photographs, scale models, and the astonishing iconography of standardization.
Literature and Material Culture from Balzac to Proust
Author: Janell Watson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113942663X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 113942663X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarmé and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Proust commemorated their last moments of glory. Focusing on the bibelot (the modern French term for knick-knack, curiosity or other collectible), Janell Watson shows how the sudden prominence given to curiosities and collecting in nineteenth-century literature signals a massive change in attitudes to the world of goods, which in turn restructured the literary text according to the practical logic of daily life, calling into question established scholarly notions of order. Her study makes an important contribution to the literary history of material culture.