Marianne in the Market: Envisioning Consumer Society in Fin-de-Siecle France

by Lisa Tiersten

In the late nineteenth century, controversy over the social ramifications of the emerging consumer marketplace beset the industrialized nations of the West. In France, various commentators expressed concern that rampant commercialization threatened the republican ideal of civic-mindedness as well as the French reputation for good taste. The female bourgeois consumer was a particularly charged figure because she represented consumption run amok. Critics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520225295
• ISBN13: 9780520225299
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"