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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.
Price: $36.95
Pages: 463
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
14 January 1991
ISBN: 9780520074248
Format: Paperback
Rosalind H. Williams is Dean for Undergraduate Education and Metcalf Professor of Writing at MIT and author of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination.
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Acknowledgments
1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution
Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles
2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption
3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption
4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption
5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption
Part Two: The 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. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution
Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles
2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption
3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption
4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption
5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption
Part Two: The 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. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index