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A consideration of the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late-18th and 19th centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artefacts - from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars - Lori Merish explores the symbolic functions they served and finds that consumption evolved into a form of personal expressiveness that indicated not only a woman's wealth and taste but also her race, class, morality and civic values. The discursive production of this new subjectivity - the feminine consumer - was remarkably influential, helping to shape American capitalism, culture, and nation building.Product Identifiers
PublisherDuke University Press
ISBN-139780822325161
eBay Product ID (ePID)95229812
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SubjectEconomics
Publication Year2000
Number of Pages400 Pages
Publication NameSentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
LanguageEnglish
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaGender Issues
AuthorLori Merish
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorLori Merish
Series TitleNew Americanists
TopicLiterature