Dream worlds : mass consumption in late nineteenth-century France /
In Dream Worlds, Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.
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Berkeley ; Oxford :
University of California Press,
1991, ©1982.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Implications of the Consumer Revolution
- Part 1. Development of Consumer Lifestyles
- 2. Closed World of Courtly Consumption
- 3. Dream World of Mass Consumption
- 4. Dandies and Elitist Consumption
- 5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption
- Part 2. Development of Critical Thought about Consumption
- 6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer
- 7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism
- 8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption
- 9. Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution.