Just looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
Publication details: New York Methuen 1985Description: xi,188pISBN:- 9780416378108
- 808.3 BOW
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Book | CEPT Library | General | 808.3 BOW | Available | 023489 |
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
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