Description
Book SynopsisBetween 1950 and 1972, American and European writers came to envision consumer culture in fresh, provocative ways. Across national boundaries, they shifted attention from condemnation to critical appreciation, critiqued cultural hierarchies and moralistic approaches, and explored the symbolic processes by which individuals and groups communicate.
Trade Review"
Consuming Pleasures offers a brilliant survey of major transatlantic thinkers. Horowitz is an accomplished historian who has mastered, in stunning depth and breadth, the literature on each of his principal subjects. Lucid, elegant, and engaging." * Howard Brick, author of
Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction: Understanding Consumer Culture in the Post-World War II World
Chapter 1. For and Against the American Grain
Chapter 2. Lost in Translation
Chapter 3. Crossing Borders
Chapter 4. Reluctant Fascination
Chapter 5. Literary Ethnography of Working-Class Life
Interlude
Chapter 6. Pop Art from Britain to America
Chapter 7. From Workers and Literature to Youth and Popular Culture
Chapter 8. Class and Consumption
Chapter 9. Sexuality and a New Sensibility
Chapter 10. Learning from Consumer Culture
Conclusion: The World of Pleasure and Symbolic Exchange
List of Abbreviations
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments
