skip to main content
Language:
Search Limited to: Search Limited to: Resource type Show Results with: Show Results with: Search type Index

Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England

Tammy C. Whitlock 2005 ;ISBN: 0754652076 ;ISBN: 9781138251427 ;ISBN: 9780754652076 ;ISBN: 1138251429 ;EISBN: 1351947559 ;EISBN: 1351947567 ;EISBN: 9781351947572 ;EISBN: 1315258943 ;EISBN: 9781315258942 ;EISBN: 9781351947565 ;EISBN: 9781351947558 ;EISBN: 1351947575 ;DOI: 10.4324/9781315258942 ;OCLC: 965779655

Full text available

Citations Cited by
  • Title:
    Crime, Gender and Consumer Culture in Nineteenth-Century England
  • Author: Whitlock, Tammy C.
  • Subjects: 19th century ; British History ; Consumer behavior ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumer society ; Consumption ; Consumption (Economics) ; Crime ; Economic History ; England ; Fraud ; Gender ; History ; Modern History 1750-1945 ; Retail trade ; Social & Cultural History ; Social history ; Theft ; Women ; Women consumers ; Women's & Gender History
  • Description: Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption. Mass production of goods, improved transport facilities and more sophisticated sales techniques brought consumerism to the masses on a scale previously unimaginable. Yet with this new consumerism came new problems and challenges. Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records, advertisements, newspaper reports, literature, and popular ballads, it analyses the rise, criticism, and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them. By viewing this in the context of what had gone before Professor Whitlock emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution, and argues that the dazzling new world of consumption had beginnings that predate the later English, French and American department store cultures. It also challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use of colour, light and display into excessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft. With its interdisciplinary approach drawing on social and economic history, gender studies, cultural studies and the history of crime, this study asks fascinating questions regarding the nature of consumer culture and how society reacts to the challenges this creates. Whilst the actual origins of English consumer culture are a source of much debate, it is clear that the nineteenth century witnessed a revolution in retailing and consumption. Mass production of goods, improved transport facilities and more sophisticated sales techniques brought consumerism to the masses on a scale previously unimaginable. Yet with this new consumerism came new problems and challenges. Focusing on retailing in nineteenth-century Britain, this book traces the expansion of commodity culture and a mass consumer orientated market, and explores the wider social and cultural implications this had for society. Using trial records, advertisements, newspaper reports, literature, and popular ballads, it analyses the rise, criticism, and entrenchment of consumerism by looking at retail changes around the period 1800-1880 and society's responses to them. By viewing this in the context of what had gone before Professor Whitlock emphasizes the key role women played in this evolution, and argues that the dazzling new world of consumption had beginnings that predate the later English, French and American department store cultures. It also challenges the view that women were helpless consumers manipulated by merchants' use of colour, light and display into excessive purchases, or even driven by their desires into acts of theft. With its interdisciplinary approach drawing on social and economic history, gender studies, cultural studies and the history of crime, this study asks fascinating questions regarding the nature of consumer culture and how society reacts to the challenges this creates.
  • Publisher: Oxford: Routledge
  • Creation Date: 2005
  • Format: 256
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0754652076
    ISBN: 9781138251427
    ISBN: 9780754652076
    ISBN: 1138251429
    EISBN: 1351947559
    EISBN: 1351947567
    EISBN: 9781351947572
    EISBN: 1315258943
    EISBN: 9781315258942
    EISBN: 9781351947565
    EISBN: 9781351947558
    EISBN: 1351947575
    DOI: 10.4324/9781315258942
    OCLC: 965779655
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
Back to results list
Go to Previous pagePrevious Result  7 NextGo to Next page
INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY (84-028) 37 755 057 Feedback
19 Nguyen Huu Tho St. Dist.7, HCM thuvien@tdtu.edu.vn

Copyright © 2017 INSPIRE LIBRARY - TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY

Searching Remote Databases, Please Wait