Consumerism and Prestige Andrew Willis

Consumerism and Prestige Andrew WillisThis anthology explores the relationships and interdependencies between literary production and distinctions of taste by examining how the material aspects of literary texts, such as the cover, binding, typography, and paper stock, reflect or even determine their cultural status.

An annotated anthology of the ever-fascinating tradition of Decadence in 19th-century writing

making up a vast array of practising artists

with many examples showing the benefit of the author’s extensive experience

It questions how performance might be understood as caring or uncaring and how care might be viewed as an embodied or aesthetic practice --arguing for more careful art and artful care

concentric

Hawai’i is one of the most ethnically and racially diverse places in the world due to its central location in the Pacific

He explains its history

religion and art

This second edition brings together many new contributions both from academics and film-makers

this book uncovers how medicine acquired a new materialism as well as new materials in the context of global commerce and warfare

both within the nineteenth century and the development of Victorian popular fiction and beyond its specific context

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