Just looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Bowlby, Rachel
Just looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola - New York Methuen 1985 - xi,188p.
Contents
Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments viii
A note on texts and translations ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Commerce and femininity 18
3 Making up women: Gissing's Eve's Ransom 35
4 Starring: Dreiser's Sister Carrie 52
5 "Traffic in her desires": Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames 66
6 Culture and the book business 83
7 Making it: Gissing' s New Grub Street 98
8 The artist as adman: Dreiser's The "Genius" 118
9 Working: Zola's L' Oeuvre 134
Postscript 151
Notes 155
Short bibliography of secondary works 176
Index 184
9780416378108
Dance in art
Fiction
Naturalism in literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Political and social views
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Zola, �mile, 1840-1902
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
France
808.3 / BOW
Just looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola - New York Methuen 1985 - xi,188p.
Contents
Illustrations vi
Acknowledgments viii
A note on texts and translations ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Commerce and femininity 18
3 Making up women: Gissing's Eve's Ransom 35
4 Starring: Dreiser's Sister Carrie 52
5 "Traffic in her desires": Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames 66
6 Culture and the book business 83
7 Making it: Gissing' s New Grub Street 98
8 The artist as adman: Dreiser's The "Genius" 118
9 Working: Zola's L' Oeuvre 134
Postscript 151
Notes 155
Short bibliography of secondary works 176
Index 184
9780416378108
Dance in art
Fiction
Naturalism in literature
Consumption (Economics) in literature
Political and social views
Gissing, George, 1857-1903
Zola, �mile, 1840-1902
Dreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
France
808.3 / BOW