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Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France Lisa Tiersten
Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France
Lisa Tiersten
Traces debates about the woman consumer to examine the complex encounter between the market and the republic in nineteenth-century France. This work explores how agents of capitalism - department store managers, fashion journalists - addressed fears of consumerism through the forging of an aesthetics of the marketplace: a 'marketplace modernism'.
334 pages, 20 b/w photographs
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 20, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780520225299 |
| Publishers | University of California Press |
| Pages | 334 |
| Dimensions | 154 × 237 × 27 mm · 674 g |