num_pages: 190
description: What is retail therapy? Why is shopping fun? Where does desire end and ideology begin in a world of mass consumption? These are some of the central questions of Fictions of Commodity Culture, a wide-ranging study of consumerism and its literary representation from the Victorian period through to the postmodern era.
language: English
title: Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern
titlecomplete: Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd