Consumer chronicles, cultures of consumption in modern French literature, David H. Walker
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Consumer chronicles, cultures of consumption in modern French literature, David H. Walker
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-321) and index
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
Consumer chronicles
Nature of contents
bibliography
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670480363
Responsibility statement
David H. Walker
Series statement
Contemporary French and francophone cultures, v.19
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cultures of consumption in modern French literature
Table of contents
Waiting for the consumer society. Earning, yearning and making do : Huysmans, Les sœrs Vatard ; Flâneurs and shoppers : Huysmans, En ménage ; From shopping to Schopenhauer : Huysmans, A vau-l'eau -- Economies of consumption (1). Transactions and value : Gide, L'Immoraliste -- Small shops. La Lente Agonie du petite commerce : Balzac, Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau and Zola, Au bonheur des dames ; Elevé dans le commerce : Céline, Mort à crédit ; The emporium strikes back : Dutourd, Au bon beurre -- Big stores. The big sell ; The grand magasin : Zola, Au bonheur des dames (2) ; "Les Vénus des comptoirs" : feminism and shopping in the 1920's ; Total retail : figures of the dystopian superstore -- Economies of consumption (2). Speculations on value -- Reflections on the consumer society. Post-war visions of paradise : the dawning of the consumer society ; Managing the consumers (1) : motivational analysts ; Managing the consumers (2) : advertisers : The consumers managing 1 : making do by instalments ; The consumers managing 2 : making do and producing
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