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Consuming Traditions

Modernity, Modernism, and the Commodified Authentic

Consuming Traditions( )
Author: Outka, Elizabeth
Series title:Modernist Literature and Culture Ser.
ISBN:978-0-19-987170-4
Publication Date:Jan 2009
Publisher:Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Book Format:Online resource
List Price:USD $66.00
Book Description:

In an unprecedented phenomenon that swept across Britain at the turn of the nineteenth century, writers, advertisers, and architects began to create and sell images of an authentic cultural realm paradoxically considered outside the marketplace. Such images were located in nostalgic pictures of an idyllic, pre-industrial past, in supposedly original objects not derived from previous traditions, and in the ideal of a purified aesthetic that might be separated from the mass market....
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