Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction. Understanding Consumer Culture in the Post–World War II World 1
5. Chapter 1. For and Against the American Grain 19
6. Chapter 2. Lost in Translation 45
7. Chapter 3. Crossing Borders 86
8. Chapter 4. Reluctant Fascination 122
9. Chapter 5. Literary Ethnography of Working-Class Life 163
10. Interlude 193
11. Chapter 6. Pop Art from Britain to America 199
12. Chapter 7. From Workers and Literature to Youth and Popular Culture 235
13. Chapter 8. Class and Consumption 271
14. Chapter 9. Sexuality and a New Sensibility 306
15. Chapter 10. Learning from Consumer Culture 335
16. Conclusion. The World of Pleasure and Symbolic Exchange 361
17. Abbreviations 365
18. Notes 367
19. Index 467
20. Acknowledgments 489