{"product_id":"consuming-pleasures-9780812243956","title":"Consuming Pleasures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetween 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eConsuming Pleasures\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eTranscending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Understanding Consumer Culture in the Post-World War II World\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. For and Against the American Grain\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Lost in Translation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Crossing Borders\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Reluctant Fascination\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Literary Ethnography of Working-Class Life\u003cbr\u003e Interlude\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Pop Art from Britain to America\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. From Workers and Literature to Youth and Popular Culture\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Class and Consumption\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Sexuality and a New Sensibility\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Learning from Consumer Culture\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The World of Pleasure and Symbolic Exchange\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405717807447,"sku":"9780812243956","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812243956.jpg?v=1730493383","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/consuming-pleasures-9780812243956","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}