The Culture of consumption : [electronic resource] critical essays in American history, 1880-1980 / edited by Richard Wightman Fox and T.J. Jackson Lears.

Includes bibliographical references.

From salvation to self-realization: advertising and the therapeutic roots of the consumer culture, 1880-1930 / T.J. Jackson Lears -- The rhetoric of consumption: mass-market magazines and the demise of the gentle reader, 1880-1920 / Christopher P. Wilson -- The consuming vision of Henry James / Jean-Christophe Agnew -- Epitaph for middletown: Robert S. Lynd and the analysis of consumer culture / Richard Wightman Fox -- Politics as consumption: managing the modern American election / Robert Westbrook -- Selling the moon: the U.S. manned space program and the triumph of commodity scientism / Michael L. Smith.