Consuming Traditions by Elizabeth Outka

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Consuming Traditions examines the curious relationship between modernism and consumer culture through readings of key texts by George Bernard Shaw, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and others.

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Consuming Traditions by Elizabeth Outka

Consuming Traditions examines the curious relationship between modernism and consumer culture through readings of key texts by George Bernard Shaw, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and others.
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 purityModern 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. * Jesse Matz, Kenyon College *
Elizabeth Outka is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Richmond. She has published essays on modernism and British culture in Modernism/modernity, NOVEL and other publications.
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ISBN 13 9780199921843
ISBN 10 0199921849
Title Consuming Traditions
Author Elizabeth Outka
Series Modernist Literature And Culture
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Year published 2012-09-13
Number of pages 234
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