Frontmatter

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-18

I - Waiting for The Consumer Society

pp 19-20

1 - Earning, Yearning and Making Do: Huysmans, Les Soeurs Vatard

pp 21-43

2 - Flâneurs and Shoppers: Huysmans, En ménage

pp 44-60

3 - From Shopping to Schopenhauer: Huysmans, A vau-l'eau

pp 61-66

II - Economies of Consumption (1)

pp 67-68

4 - Transactions and Value: Gide, L'Immoraliste

pp 69-90

III - Small Shops

pp 91-92

5 - La Lente Agonie du petit commerce? Balzac, Grandeur et décadence de César Birotteau and Zola, Au bonheur des dames

pp 93-105

6 - Elevé dans le commerce: Céline, Mort à crédit

pp 106-120

7 - The Emporium Strikes Back: Dutourd, Au Bon Beurre

pp 121-136

IV - Big Stores

pp 137-138

8 - The Big Sell

pp 139-154

9 - The grand magasin: Zola, Au bonheur des dames (2)

pp 155-167

10 - ‘Les Vénus des comptoirs’: Feminism and Shopping in the 1920s

pp 168-180

11 - Total Retail: Figures of the Dystopian Superstore

pp 181-200

V - Economies of Consumption (2)

pp 201-202

12 - Speculations on Value

pp 203-222

VI - Reflections on The Consumer Society

pp 223-224

13 - Post-war Visions of Paradise: The Dawning of the Consumer Society

pp 225-240

14 - Managing the Consumers (1): Motivational Analysts

pp 241-255

15 - Managing the Consumers (2): Advertisers

pp 256-265

16 - The Consumers Managing 1: Making Do by Instalments

pp 266-282

17 - The Consumers Managing 2: Making Do and Producing

pp 283-295

Conclusion: A Good Buy?

pp 296-310

Bibliography

pp 311-321

Index

pp 322-328