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University Press of New England Sacramental Shopping: Louisa May Alcott, Edith Wharton and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (Becoming Modern: New Nineteenth-Century Studies)

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About the Author Sarah Way Sherman is an associate professor of English and American studies at the University of New Hampshire, USA. Product Description Written a generation apart and rarely treated together by scholars, Little Women (1868) and The House of Mirth (1905) share a deep concern with materialism, moral development, and self-construction. The heroines in both grapple with conspicuous consumption, an aspect of modernity that challenges older beliefs about ethical behavior and core identity. Placing both novels at the historical intersection of modern consumer culture and older religious discourse on materialism and identity, Sarah Way Sherman analyzes how Alcott and Wharton rework traditional Protestant discourse to interpret their heroines' struggle with modern consumerism. Her conclusion reveals how Little Women's optimism, still buoyed by otherworldly justice, providential interventions, and the notion of essential identity, ultimately gives way to the much darker vision of modern materialistic culture in The House of Mirth.

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University Press of New England
Format
hardcover
ASIN
1611684226
Category
Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism
Domain
Amazon UK
Release Date
31 October 2013
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16 November 2012

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