The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism was first published by Basil Blackwell of Oxford in 1987. A paperback edition appeared two years later,

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This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption

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