Shopping and the Senses, 1800-1970 1st Edition Palgrave Macmillan

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• ISBN-10: 3030903354
• ISBN-13: 9783030903350
• Author: Palgrave Macmillan

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. “To Rub the Nose in the Tea”: Smell, Taste, and the Assessment of Quality in Early Nineteenth-Century Tea Retail
3. An Assault on the Senses: Cultural Representations of the Victorian Village Shop
4. The Politics of Sitting Down: Women, Cafés and Public Toilets in Dublin
5. Comfort and Safety: An Intersensorial History of Shopping Streets in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam and Brussels
6. The Cry of Silk: Erotomania and Fetishism in Au Bonheur des Dames
7. “Behind the Scenes of a Retail Shop”: Sensory Experiences of Living-In, c. 1880s–1920s
8. Synergy and Dissonance of the Senses: Negotiating Fashion Through Second-Hand Dealing, Jumble Sales and Street Market Trading in 1930s East End London
9. “A Seductive Weapon … a Necessary Luxury”: Shopping for ‘Designer Perfume’ During the Interwar Period
10. Be My Baby: Sensory Difference and Youth Identity in British Fashion Retail, 1945–1970

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