Overview :The mid-twentieth-century woman was stereotypically seen as a housewife and mother, who shopped. But whether as purchaser, parent or profess... Read More
Overview :Rachel Bowlby's anthology of articles conjures up the enormous richness and variety of recent work that returns to Woolf not so much for fin... Read More
Overview :What is a consumer? Shopping with Freud looks at some of the surprising ways in which the consumer subject appears in a range of writings - ... Read More
Overview :For many decades Peter Brooks's critical writing has been a force of illumination and inspiration for readers of many kinds, with memorable ... Read More
Overview :More than a hundred years ago, Freud made a new mythology by revising an old one: Oedipus, in Sophocles' tragedy the legendary perpetrator o... Read More
Overview :Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern sh... Read More
Overview :Zola made it his aim to write novels exploring the many compartments and classes of modern French life in the later nineteenth century--and ... Read More