Consuming Traditions - Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic (Hardcover)

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might be separated from the mass market. Presenting a lively, unique study of what she terms the "commodified authentic," Elizabeth Outka explores this crucial but overlooked development in the history of modernity with a piercing look at consumer culture and the marketing of authenticity in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Britain.
The book brings together a wide range of cultural sources, from the model towns of Bournville, Port Sunlight, and Letchworth; to the architecture of Edwin Lutyens and Selfridges department store; to work by authors such as Bernard Shaw, E. M. Forster, Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modernist Literature & Culture
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	December 2008
Authors:	Elizabeth Outka (Associate Professor of English)
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	232
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-537269-4
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Consumer issues Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > World history > 1750 to 1900 Promotions
LSN:	0-19-537269-7
Barcode:	9780195372694

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