Catherine Waters

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words

The Social Life of Goods

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Produktbeschreibung

From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain predominantly middle-class readers. He filled the journal with articles about various commodities, many of which raise questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services. Although stu

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367887919
• ISBN-10: 0367887916
• Artikelnr.: 58439731

Autorenporträt

Catherine Waters is a senior lecturer in English at the University of New England (New South Wales). She is the author of Dickens and the Politics of the Family (1997) and various articles on Victorian fiction and journalism.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Advertising fictions
The genuine article, the sham and the problem of authenticity
'The key of the street'
'Men made by machinery'
Worldly goods
'Trading in death'
'Fashion in undress'
Bibliography
Index.