Shopping and the senses, 1800-1970 : a sensory history of retail and consumption / Serena Dyer, editor.
Dyer, Serena, editor.
2022
HF5429
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Title
Shopping and the senses, 1800-1970 : a sensory history of retail and consumption / Serena Dyer, editor.
ISBN
9783030903350 (electronic bk.)
3030903354 (electronic bk.)
9783030903343
3030903346
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90335-0
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (1 volume)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-90335-0 doi
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HF5429
Dewey Decimal Classification
381.09
Summary
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 the tempting aroma of coffee, the multi-sensory appeal of goods has long been at the heart of how we shop. This book delves into and beyond this seductive idyl of consumer sensuality. Shopping was a sensory activity for consumers and retailers alike, but this experience was not always positive. This book is inhabited by tired feet and weary workers, as well as eager shoppers. It considers embodied sensory experiences and practices, and it represents both a celebration and interrogation of the integration of sensory histories into the study of retail and consumption. Crucially, this book places breathing, feeling human bodies back into the retail space.
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Includes index.
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Dyer, Serena, editor.
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Shopping and the senses, 1800-1970.
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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 Marche; 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 LivingIn, 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 Weapona 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.

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