以“史”为纲梳理文学消费主义的公共性身份变迁及其价值功能变化是本书的基本思路。在此宏观构架下，具体以新时期以来文学消费主义公共性身份与价值功能的三次变迁及其所表征的市场经济关系发展的三个阶段为结点，从总体上探讨其历史演进的精神轨迹、内在规律与价值特点，详细论述文学消费主义公共性身份与价值功能变迁的具体过程与微观形态。

Taking "history" as the outline to sort out the changes in the public identity of literary consumerism and the changes in its value function is the basic idea of this book. Under this macro framework, the three changes of the public identity and value function of literary consumerism and the three stages of the development of the market economy relationship represented by it are taken as the nodes as the nodes, the spiritual trajectory, internal law and value characteristics of its historical evolution are discussed as a whole, and the specific process and micro form of the change of the public identity and value function of literary consumerism are discussed in detail.（AI翻译）