Sentimental Materialism

Gender, Commodity, Culture and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Szerző: Lori Merish

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Kiadó: Duke University Press

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and...

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Lori Merish

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

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2000

oldal

400

EAN

9780822324805

ISBN

0822324806

Enbook ID

04937225

Kiadó

Duke University Press

Súly

1070

Méretek

156 x 235 x 33

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In Sentimental Materialism Lori Merish considers the intricate relationship between consumption and womanhood in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Taking as her starting point a diversity of cultural artefacts - from domestic fiction and philosophical treatises to advice literature and cigars - 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. The phenomenon of female consumption was capitalism's complement to male production: It created what Merish calls the Other Protestant Ethic," a feminine and sentimental counterpart to Max Weber's ethic of hard work, economic rationality, and self-control. In addition, driven by the culture's effort to civilise the "cannibalistic" practices of ethnic, class, and national otherness, appropriate female consumerism, marked by taste and refinement, identified certain women and their families as proper citizens of the United States. The public nature of consumption, however, had curiously conflicting effects: While the achievement of cultured material circumstances facilitated women's civic agency, it also reinforced stereotypes of domestic womanhood. Sentimental Materialism's inquiry into middle-class consumption and accompanying ideals of womanhood will appeal to readers in a variety of disciplines, including American studies, cultural studies, feminist theory, and cultural history.

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