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COPYRIGHT 2005 Modern Humanities Research Association
Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern. By CHRISTOPH LINDNER. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. viii+190 pp. 40 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3483-3.
Christoph Lindner offers a study that looks at literary representations of consumerism. Focusing on selected novels by Gaskell, Thackeray, Trollope, Conrad, and Delillo, he argues that, in the nineteenth century, the 'discourse of economic exchange became the discourse of social exchange'...
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