Author : Catherine Waters
Release : 2008
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words write by Catherine Waters. This book was released on 2008. Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From 1850 to 1859, Charles Dickens 'conducted' Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain predominantly middle-class readers. He filled the journal with articles about various commodities, many of which raise questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services.Although studies of Victorian commodity culture have tended to focus on the novel, scholarly interest in Victorian periodicals and material culture has been prompted by recognition of the major role the press played in disseminating knowledge and information about the proliferating world of goods. At the same time, periodicals like Household Words were themselves commodities that relied on their marketability for survival. This book provides a cultural study of the journal's representation of commodities that records the changing relationship between people and things exposed in the contributors' attempts to come to terms with the development of urban commodity culture at mid-century.