Book Review: The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism

Appadurai Arjun , ed. (1986), The Social Life of Things. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

McCracken Grant (1988), Culture and Consumption: New Approaches to the Symbolic Character of Consumer Goods and Activities. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

McKendrick Neil , Brewer John , and Plumb J. H. , eds. (1982), The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Mukerji Chandra (1983), From Graven Images. New York: Columbia University Press.

Williams Rosalind H. (1982), Dream Worlds: Mass Consumption in Late Nineteenth Century France. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.