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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gurney, Peter (19..-....)
Titre(s) : Wanting and having [Texte imprimé] : popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830-70 / Peter Gurney
Publication : Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015
Description matérielle : xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Argues that the rise of capitalist consumerism in 19th-century England was not a neutral
and progressive transformation but involved heated political contests based on competing
visions of economy and society
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Popular politics and liberal consumerism in England, 1830-70
Sujet(s) : Pauvreté -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle
Consommation -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle
Politique sociale -- Angleterre (GB) -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780719091452. - ISBN 0719091454
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb456911299
Notice n° :
FRBNF45691129
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 'A new order of things' : mapping popular politics onto consumption ; 'Rejoicing
in potatoes' : the politics of consumption during the 'Hungry Forties' ; 'The Andover
Cannibalism' : popular entitlement and the New Poor Law ; 'Yours in the cause of
Democracy' : democratic discourse and the Chartist challenge ; 'Consumers of their
own productions' : popular radicalism and consumer organising ; 'Please, sir, I want
some more' : Dickens on working-class scarcity and middle-class excess ; 'The Sublime
of the Bazaar' : the religion of free trade and the making of modern consumerism
; 'The lion turned into a lamb' : the consumer politics of popular liberalism ; Epilogue
: 'The Age of Veneer' : the limits of liberal consumerism.
