Thomas Richards is Associate Professor of English and American literature at Harvard University. He is the author of The Commodity Culture of Victorian Britain: Advertising and Spectacle 1851-1914 and The Imperial Archive: Knowledge and the Fantasy of Empire
A compelling story of how advertisers built a system of signs
around the humble commodity, erased the line between the cultural
and the economic, and laid the groundwork for our own spectacle of
goods. Richards has made a subtle contribution to cultural
studies.
*Richard Ohmann, Wesleyan University*
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