Consuming Traditions : Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic Hardback
by Elizabeth (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, University of Rich Outka
Part of the Modernist Literature & Culture series
Hardback
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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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 7 halftones and 15 line illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:04/12/2008
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- ISBN:9780195372694
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:232 pages, 7 halftones and 15 line illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc
- Publication Date:04/12/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780195372694
