Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970 : A Sensory History of Retail and Consumption /

This book demonstrates the primacy of touch, smell, taste, sight and sound within the retail landscape. It shows that histories of the senses, body, and emotions were inextricably intertwined with processes and practices of retail and consumption. Shops are sensory feasts. From the rustle of silk to...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Dyer, Serena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:1st ed. 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Shopping and Sensing: Embodied Experiences of Retail and Consumption; Serena Dyer
  • 2. 'To Rub the Nose in the Tea': Smell, Taste, and the Assessment of Quality in Early-Nineteenth Century Tea Retail; Mathew Mauger
  • 3. An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop; Lucy Bailey
  • 4. Women, Shopping and the Politics of Sitting Down; Stephanie Rainesl
  • 5. Comfort and Safety: Shopping Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam and Brussels; Anneleen Arnout
  • 6. The Customer Set Free: Shopping Under Iron and Glass at the Bon Marché; Amanda Sikarskie
  • 7. The Cry of Silk: Fetishism and Erotomania in Au Bonheur des Dames; Wendy Ligon Smith
  • 8. "Behind the Scenes of a Retail Shop": Sensory Experiences of Living‐In, 1880s-1920s; Alison Moulds
  • 9. Synergy and Dissonance of the Senses: Negotiating Fashion through Second-Hand Dealing, Seconds Trading, Jumble Sales and Street Markets in 1930s London; Cheryl Roberts
  • 10. 'A Seductive Weapon...a Necessary Luxury': Shopping for 'Designer Perfume' during the Interwar Period; Lucy Moyse Ferreira
  • 11. Be My Baby: Developing Sensory Experiences for Teenagers in British Fashion Retail, 1945-1975; Bethan Bide.