Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Lori Merish.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Karen A. Weyler, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Like Ann Douglas in The Feminization of American Culture, Lori Merish in Sentimental Materialism locates nineteenth-century sentimentality in the
nexus of commodity consumption, but Merish productively complicates the relationships among American women, literary texts, and consumer
goods. In a learned and theoretically charged reading comprising feminist, materialist, and new historicist readings of both familiar and
lesser known texts, Merish illustrates the enduring influence of eighteenth-century Scottish moral philosophy with regard to women and
consumption. In the Scottish model, "taste," with its civilizing, sensitizing
influence, was the province of women and a route to social subjectivity,
albeit not to full citizenship.
Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. By Lori Merish.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- South Atlantic Review 66.1 (2001): 229-32.
- Language: English
- Date: 2001
- Keywords
- Book review, Women, 19th century, Literature