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020 _a9780416378108
082 _a808.3
_bBOW
100 _aBowlby, Rachel
_990197
245 _aJust looking : consumer culture in Dreiser, Gissing and Zola
260 _aNew York
_bMethuen
_c1985
300 _axi,188p.
505 _aContents 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
890 _aUSA
891 _aGeneral
942 _2ddc
999 _c69526
_d69526
650 _aDance in art
_aFiction
_aNaturalism in literature
_aConsumption (Economics) in literature
_aPolitical and social views
_aGissing, George, 1857-1903
_aZola, �mile, 1840-1902
_aDreiser, Theodore, 1871-1945
650 _aFrance