Author: Emily M. Orr
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-11-28
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1350054380
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The book builds an original argument for the department store as a significant site of design production, and therefore offers an alternative interpretation to the mainstream focus on consumption within retail history. Emily M. Orr presents a fresh perspective on the rise of modern urban consumer culture, of which the department store was a key feature. By investigating the production processes of display as well as fascinating information about display-making's tools and technologies, the skills of the displayman and the meaning and context of design decisions which shaped the final visual effect are revealed. In addition, the book identifies and isolates 'display' as a distinct moment in the life of the commodity, and understands it as an influential channel of mediation in the shopping experience. The assembly and interpretation of a diverse range of previously unexplored primary resources and archives yields fascinating new evidence, showing how display achieved an agency which transformed everyday objects into commodities and made consumers out of passersby.
Author: S. Thornton
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-03-31
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 023023674X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From 1830 to 1870 advertising brought in its wake a new understanding of how the subject read and how language operated. Sara Thornton presents a crucial moment in print culture, the early recognition of what we now call a 'virtual' world, and proposes new readings of key texts by Dickens and Balzac.
Author: Catherine Waters
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 135195041X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.
Author: Faculty of Advocates (Scotland). Library
Publisher:
Published: 1876
Total Pages: 834
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The collections of the Advocates Library, with the exception of its legal books and manuscripts, were given by the Advocates to the National Library of Scotland in 1925.
Author: Nicholas Daly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-03-30
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 110709559X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provocative account exploring how a population explosion transformed nineteenth-century European and American culture, creating shared narratives of urban life.
Author: Provincial Medical and Surgical Association
Publisher:
Published: 1855
Total Pages: 1178
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Publisher:
Published: 1904
Total Pages: 498
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