Consuming Traditions

Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvElizabeth Outka

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-09-13
Mått155 x 231 x 15 mm
Vikt340 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieModernist Literature and Culture
Antal sidor234
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199921843

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Preface ; 1. Selling Authenticity ; Part One: Commodified Nostalgia and the Country Aesthetic ; 2. The Past is a Present Country: Model Towns and Commercial Utopias ; 3. Buying Time: E. M. Forster and the Neo-Nostalgic Home ; Part Two: Urban Authenticities ; 4. The Vanishing Act of Commercialism: Selfridges, Modernity, and the Purified Marketplace ; 5. "Lustrous Behind Glass": Woolf, Window Shopping, and Authentic Display ; Conclusion: Modernist Excursions

Guilty pleasures become serious virtues in Outka's transformative account of 'commodified authenticity,' that prodigy by which modernist culture gave us such things as gorgeous fakeries, original copies, and mass-produced purity. Modern art, modern commerce: in this brilliant book, the two reveal all their most delicious collaborations and all the mass benefits of mass culture. Consuming Traditions brings us the best of both worlds. It is the best kind of book-one that wholly rethinks early twentieth-century culture and discovers much new to love about it.

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