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Hoarders Material Deviance in Modern American Culture

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ISBN-10: 022617171X

ISBN-13: 9780226171715

Edition: 2014

Authors: Scott Herring

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The verb “declutter” has not yet made it into the Oxford English Dictionary, but its ever-increasing usage suggests that it’s only a matter of time. Articles containing tips and tricks on how to get organized cover magazine pages and pop up in TV programs and commercials, while clutter professionals and specialists referred to as “clutterologists” are just a phone call away. Everywhere the sentiment is the same: clutter is bad.In The Hoarders, Scott Herring provides an in-depth examination of how modern hoarders came into being, from their onset in the late 1930s to the present day. He finds that both the idea of organization and the role of the clutterologist are deeply ingrained in our…    
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Book details

List price: $29.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/9/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.90" long x 0.05" tall
Weight: 0.616
Language: English

Scott Herring is associate professor in the Department of English at Indiana University. He is the author of Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism and Queering the Underworld: Slumming, Literature, and the Undoing of Lesbian and Gay History, also published by the University of Chicago Press.