In Dream Worlds, Rosalind Williams examines the origins and moral implications of consumer society, providing a cultural history of its emergence in late nineteenth-century France.
Dream Worlds Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France
About the Book
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. The Implications of the Consumer Revolution
Part One: The Development of Consumer Lifestyles
2. The Closed World of Courtly Consumption
3. The Dream World of Mass Consumption
4. The Dandies and Elitist Consumption
5. Decorative Arts Reform and Democratic Consumption
Part Two: The Development of Critical Thought about Consumption
6. From Luxury to Solidarity: The Quest for a Morale of the Consumer
7. Charles Gide and the Emergence of Consumer Activism
8. Durkheim, Tarde, and the Emergence of a Sociology of Consumption
9. A Fragment of Future History: Beyond the Consumer Revolution
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index