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Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868-1952) by Salvador Oropesa Márquez (review)

Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868-1952) by Salvador Oropesa Márquez (review) RESENAS SALVADOR OROPESA MÁRQUEZ. Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868- 1952). Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2014. 311 pp. Cristina Delano Salvador A. Oropesa Márquez’s monograph Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868-1952) is an interdisciplinary study that examines the representation of stores in modern Spanish cultural production. Oropesa’s monograph analyzes texts from different genres and ideological perspectives and presents the reader with an engaging history of Spanish literature and culture. His work emphasizes the inexorable links between shopping, modernity, and democracy –a connection that scholars have not always appreciated. As Oropesa explains in the introduction, shopping has an image problem. Long considered a frivolous, vacuous activity associated with pleasure and “feminine” spaces, shopping and stores have not always received serious critical attention. Oropesa’s book is strongly influenced by the work of José Antonio Maravall and his emphasis on interdisciplinary historical studies and quotidian cultural practices. While he acknowledges the Frankfurt School’s perspective of consumption as part of the manipulation of mass culture, Oropesa prefers the postmodern position that sees consumerism as a creative act. He cites Paco Underhill and James G. Carrier, who both view shopping as a manifestation of desire and identity. In the Spanish http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Anales Galdosianos Anales Galdosianos

Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868-1952) by Salvador Oropesa Márquez (review)

Delano, Cristina
Anales Galdosianos , Volume 50 – Dec 20, 2015
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RESENAS SALVADOR OROPESA MÁRQUEZ. Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868- 1952). Málaga: Universidad de Málaga, 2014. 311 pp. Cristina Delano Salvador A. Oropesa Márquez’s monograph Literatura y comercio en España: las tiendas (1868-1952) is an interdisciplinary study that examines the representation of stores in modern Spanish cultural production. Oropesa’s monograph analyzes texts from different genres and ideological perspectives and presents the reader with an engaging history of Spanish literature and culture. His work emphasizes the inexorable links between shopping, modernity, and democracy –a connection that scholars have not always appreciated. As Oropesa explains in the introduction, shopping has an image problem. Long considered a frivolous, vacuous activity associated with pleasure and “feminine” spaces, shopping and stores have not always received serious critical attention. Oropesa’s book is strongly influenced by the work of José Antonio Maravall and his emphasis on interdisciplinary historical studies and quotidian cultural practices. While he acknowledges the Frankfurt School’s perspective of consumption as part of the manipulation of mass culture, Oropesa prefers the postmodern position that sees consumerism as a creative act. He cites Paco Underhill and James G. Carrier, who both view shopping as a manifestation of desire and identity. In the Spanish

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