Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth-Century France

by Williams (Author)

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1992
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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.

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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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 463
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 01 Jul 1992
ISBN 10: 0520074246
ISBN 13: 9780520074248

Media Reviews

Dream Worlds makes a genuine contribution to understanding how hopes and desires came to be invested in goods. -- New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Rosalind H. Williams is Dean for Undergraduate Education and Metcalf Professor of Writing at MIT and author of Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society, and the Imagination.