Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words - The Social Life of Goods (Paperback)

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The Nineteenth Century Series
Release date:	December 2019
First published:	2008
Authors:	Catherine Waters
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	192
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-88791-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Press & journalism
LSN:	0-367-88791-6
Barcode:	9780367887919

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