ISBN:
0230007058
,
9780230007055
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xii, 223 p)
,
ill
,
23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
DDC:
305.4094/0903
Keywords:
Material culture in literature
;
Material culture History
;
Women consumers History
;
Women Social conditions
Abstract:
This book comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the eighteenth century. These essays point to the many ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods and elucidate the complex relationships between material and social practice in the period
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Dress and Adornment; 1 Women and their Jewels; 2 Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850; 3 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats and New Identities; Part II: Women and Sculpture; 4 Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts; 5 Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices
Description / Table of Contents:
6 A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and ConcupiscencePart III: The Material Culture of Empire; 7 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside in': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825); 8 Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade; 9 White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion; Part IV: Women and Books; 10 Reinstating the 'Pamela Vogue'; 11 The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange
Description / Table of Contents:
12 'Books without which I cannot write': How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read?Select Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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