- Title:
- Propriety, Performance and Desire: An Analysis of Consumer Culture in Early Nineteenth Century Britain
- Creator:
- McCready, Samuel
- Date Created:
- 2013
- Degree Awarded:
- Master of Arts
- Subjects:
- European LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND LINGUISTICS
- Geographical Focus:
- Britain
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- This thesis argues that the development consumer culture in early nineteenth century Britain formed part of a broader conservative response to a series of severe and sustained political, economic, social, intellectual and military upheavals that followed the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars. It argues that the early nineteenth century in Britain represents a moment where the demands of expanding productive forces and consumers coalesced with the anxieties caused by successive internal and external crises to produce a marketplace that was at once a source of liberation and excitement for those wishing to engage in aesthetic pleasure-seeking through consumption, but also heavily intruded upon by a resurgent conservative discourse desiring to restore and maintain socio-economic and cultural stability in the nation.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- McCready, Samuel. 2013. "Propriety, Performance and Desire: An Analysis of Consumer Culture in Early Nineteenth Century Britain", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_89.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.