Dream Worlds

, by Williams, Rosalind H.

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ISBN: 9780520074248 | 0520074246
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 3/1/1991

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InDream Worlds,Rosalind Williamsexamines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.

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List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
The Implications of the Consumer Revolution	p. 1
The Development of Consumer Lifestyles	p. 17
The Closed World of Courtly Consumption	p. 19
The Dream World of Mass Consumption	p. 58
The Dandies and Elitist Consumption	p. 107
Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption	p. 154
The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption	p. 211
From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer	p. 213
Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism	p. 276
Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption	p. 322
A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution	p. 385
Notes	p. 407
Selected Bibliography	p. 427
Index	p. 431
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Dream Worlds

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