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Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women Loeb, Lori Anne (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina)
Consuming Angels: Advertising and Victorian Women
Loeb, Lori Anne (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of South Carolina)
This is a major study of the manner in which Victorian advertisements shaped social values and ideals. It demonstrates how advertisements reflected hedonistic patterns, glorified the culture's consumerism, and mythologized a middle-class life which offered prosperity for all.
236 pages, halftones, bibliography
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 8, 1994 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195085969 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 240 |
| Dimensions | 157 × 235 × 21 mm · 526 g |
| Language | English |