Consuming Visions. Accumulation and Display of Goods in America 1880-1920.

This anthology contains the following articles :
1. Simon Bronner: Reading Consumer Culture ;
2. Michael Barton: The Victorian Jeremiad: Critics of Accumulation and Display ;
3. Jackson Lears: Beyond Veblen: Rethinking Consumer Culture in America ;
4. William Leach: Strategists of Display and the Production of Desire ;
5. Jean-Christoph Agnew: A House of Fiction: Domestic Interiors and the Commodity Aesthetic ;
6. Karen Halttunen: From Parlor to Living Room: Domestic Space, Interior Decoration and the Culture of Personality ;
7. Rober W. Rydell: The Culture of Imperial Abundance: World's Fairs in the Making of American Culture ;
8. Simon J. Bronner: Object Lessons: The Work of Ethnological Museums and Collections ;
9. Jay Mechling: The Collecting Self and American Youth Movement ;
10. William R. Taylor: The Evolution of Public Space in New York City: The Commercial Showcase of America ;
11. Eugene Rochberg-Halton: Life, Literature, and Sociology in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago ;
12. Thomas J. Schlereth: Country Stores, Country Fairs, and Mail-Order Catalogues: Consumption in Rural America ;
Index.