Consumerism, Gender and Ways of Seeing. New York in Works of the Ashcan School

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of Gottingen (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded as a complete "e;transformation of American culture"e; (Zurier). An abundance of scholarly works have been devoted to...