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Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199272085
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain written by Maxine Berg and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain explores the invention, making, and buying of new, semi-luxury, and fashionable consumer goods during the eighteenth century. It follows these goods, from china tea ware to all sorts of metal ornaments such as candlesticks, cutlery, buckles, and buttons, as they were made and shopped for, then displayed in the private domestic settings of Britain's urban middling classes. It tells the stories and analyses the developmentsthat led from a global trade in Eastern luxuries beginning in the sixteenth century to the new global trade in British-made consumer goods by the end of the eighteenth century.These new products, regarded as luxuries by the rapidly growing urban and middling-class people of the eighteenth century, played an important part in helping to proclaim personal identities,and guide social interaction. Customers enjoyed shopping for them; they took pleasure in their beauty, ingenuity or convenience. All manner of new products appeared in shop windows; sophisticated mixed-media advertising seduced customers and created new wants. This unparalleled 'product revolution' provokedphilosophers and pundits to proclaim a 'new luxury', one that reached out to the middling and trading classes, unlike the elite and corrupt luxury of old.Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain is cultural history at its best, built on a fresh empirical base drawn directly from customs accounts, advertising material, company papers, and contemporary correspondence. Maxine Berg traces how this new consumer society of the eighteenth century and the products first traded, then invented to satisfy it, stimulated industrialization itself. Global markets for the consumer goods of private and domestic life inspired the industrialrevolution and British products 'won the world'.

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century

Author : M. Berg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230508278
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Luxury in the Eighteenth Century written by M. Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.

Goods from the East, 1600-1800

Author : Maxine Berg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403942
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Goods from the East, 1600-1800 written by Maxine Berg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Goods from the East focuses on the fine product trade's first Global Age: how products were made, marketed and distributed between Asia and Europe between 1600 and 1800. It brings together established scholars as well as new, to provide a full comparative and connective study of this trade.

The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : David Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192994
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book The Chinese Taste in Eighteenth-Century England written by David Porter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century consumers in Britain, living in an increasingly globalized world, were infatuated with exotic Chinese and Chinese-styled goods, art and decorative objects. However, they were also often troubled by the alien aesthetic sensibility these goods embodied. This ambivalence figures centrally in the period's experience of China and of contact with foreign countries and cultures more generally. David Porter analyzes the processes by which Chinese aesthetic ideas were assimilated within English culture. Through case studies of individual figures, including William Hogarth and Horace Walpole, and broader reflections on cross-cultural interaction, Porter's readings develop new interpretations of eighteenth-century ideas of luxury, consumption, gender, taste and aesthetic nationalism. Illustrated with many examples of Chinese and Chinese-inspired objects and art, this is a major contribution to eighteenth-century cultural history and to the history of contact and exchange between China and the West.

Strange Vernaculars

Author : Janet Sorensen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210748
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Strange Vernaculars written by Janet Sorensen and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While eighteenth-century efforts to standardize the English language have long been studied--from Samuel Johnson's 'Dictionary' to grammar and elocution books of the period--less well-known are the era's popular collections of odd slang, criminal argots, provincial dialects, and nautical jargon. 'Strange Vernaculars' delves into how these published works presented the supposed lexicons of the 'common people' and traces the ways that these languages, once shunned and associated with outsiders, became objects of fascination in printed glossaries--from 'The New Canting Dictionary' to Francis Grose's 'Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue'--and in novels, poems, and songs, including works by Daniel Defoe, John Gay, Samuel Richardson, Robert Burns, and others"--Front jacket flap.

A History of England in the Eighteenth Century

Author : William Edward Hartpole Lecky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book A History of England in the Eighteenth Century written by William Edward Hartpole Lecky and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daily Life in 18th-Century England

Author : Kirstin Olsen
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Daily Life in 18th-Century England written by Kirstin Olsen and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1999-06-30 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes various aspects of life in eighteenth-century England, discussing politics, class and race, family, housing, clothing, work and wages, education, food and drink, behavior, hygiene, and other topics.

Infamous Commerce

Author : Laura J. Rosenthal
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801454344
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Infamous Commerce written by Laura J. Rosenthal and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Infamous Commerce, Laura J. Rosenthal uses literature to explore the meaning of prostitution from the Restoration through the eighteenth century, showing how both reformers and libertines constructed the modern meaning of sex work during this period. From Grub Street's lurid "whore biographies" to the period's most acclaimed novels, the prostitute was depicted as facing a choice between abject poverty and some form of sex work. Prostitution, in Rosenthal's view, confronted the core controversies of eighteenth-century capitalism: luxury, desire, global trade, commodification, social mobility, gender identity, imperialism, self-ownership, alienation, and even the nature of work itself. In the context of extensive research into printed accounts of both male and female prostitution—among them sermons, popular prostitute biographies, satire, pornography, brothel guides, reformist writing, and travel narratives—Rosenthal offers in-depth readings of Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Pamela and the responses to the latter novel (including Eliza Haywood's Anti-Pamela), Bernard Mandeville's defenses of prostitution, Daniel Defoe's Roxana, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and travel journals about the voyages of Captain Cook to the South Seas. Throughout, Rosenthal considers representations of the prostitute's own sexuality (desire, revulsion, etc.) to be key parts of the changing meaning of "the oldest profession."

Chinoiserie

Author : Stacey Sloboda
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719089459
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book Chinoiserie written by Stacey Sloboda and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a critical reassessment of chinoiserie, a style both praised and derided for its triviality, prettiness, and ornamental excesses, Stacey Sloboda argues that chinoiserie was no mute participant in eighteenth-century global consumer culture, but was instead a critical commentator on that culture. Analysing ceramics, wallpaper, furniture, garden architecture and other significant examples of British and Chinese design, this book takes an object-focused approach to studying the cultural phenomenon of the 'Chinese taste' in eighteenth-century Britain. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the critical history of design and the decorative arts in eighteenth-century Britain, and students and scholars of art history, material culture, eighteenth-century studies and British history will find a novel approach to studying the decorative arts and a forceful argument for their critical capacities.

I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century

Author : John Andrew Rice
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611174376
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century written by John Andrew Rice and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Andrew Rice’s autobiography, first published to critical acclaim in 1942, is a remarkable tour through late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century America. When the book was suppressed by the publisher soon after its appearance because of legal threats by a college president described in the book, the nation lost a rich first-person historical account of race and class relations during a critical period—not only during the days of Rice’s youth, but at the dawn of the civil rights movement. I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century begins with Rice’s childhood on a South Carolina plantation during the post-Reconstruction era. Later Rice moved to Great Britain when he won a Rhodes scholarship, then to the University of Nebraska to accept a professorship. In 1933 he founded Black Mountain College, a legendary progressive college in North Carolina that uniquely combined creative arts, liberal education, self-government, and a work program. Rice’s observations of social and working conditions in the Jim Crow South, his chronicle of his own fading southern aristocratic family, including its famous politicians, and his acerbic portraits of education bureaucrats are memorable and make this book a resource for scholars and a pleasure for lay readers. Historical facts are leavened with wit and insight; black-white relations are recounted with relentless and unsentimental discernment. Rice combines a sociologist’s eye with a dramatist’s flair in a unique voice. This Southern Classics edition includes a new introduction by Mark Bauerlein and an afterword by Rice’s grandson William Craig Rice, exposing a new generation of readers to John Andrew Rice’s incisive commentaries on the American South before the 1960s and to the work of a powerful prose stylist.

The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820

Author : Dr Maxine Berg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134914725
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Manufactures, 1700-1820 written by Dr Maxine Berg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-09-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Age of Manufactures provides an exciting alternative overview of the eighteenth-century British economy. Recent macro-economic history has discounted many of the achievements of the Industrial Revolution. Maxine Berg argues that at the heart of the Industrial Revolution, we find many new consumer industries employing a women's workforce, and bringing with them a rich diversity of technological and organizational change. Four new chapters explore recent perspectives on: * The Industrial Revolution * Eighteenth century industries * Machines and manual labour * The rise of the factory system Statistical summaries, and a thorough revision of the whole text have refreshed and enhanced this well-established and important contribution to British ecomonic history.

Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Marie Mulvey-Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349249629
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Pleasure in the Eighteenth Century written by Marie Mulvey-Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the sources of pleasure during the eighteenth century? The range of pleasurable activities from the bawdy and perverse to the refined are brought together in this collection of essays, which is the first to look at both the philosophy and practice of the pleasure-seeking Georgians. Experts on the arts of pleasure will luxuriate over Italian opera, gastronomic delights, the pleasures of Gothic terror, seduction, and the revellers of the bizarre London clubs.

Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century

Author : Karen Harvey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521822350
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Reading Sex in the Eighteenth Century written by Karen Harvey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

City of Laughter

Author : Vic Gatrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716024
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book City of Laughter written by Vic Gatrell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the satirical prints of the eighteenth century, the author explores what made Londoners laugh and offers insight into the origins of modern attitudes toward sex, celebrity, and ridicule.

Animal Companions

Author : Ingrid H. Tague
Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271065885
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (658 download)

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Download or read book Animal Companions written by Ingrid H. Tague and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The material conditions of pet keeping -- Domesticating the exotic -- Fashioning the pet -- A privilege or a right? -- Pets and their people.

Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

Author : Serena Dyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501349635
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain written by Serena Dyer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to eighteenth-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This edited collection gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature, and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring, and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms, and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and tacit knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories. This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted, and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering, and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, these essays document the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain's consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice, and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.

Smell in Eighteenth-Century England

Author : William Tullett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192582445
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Smell in Eighteenth-Century England written by William Tullett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In England from the 1670s to the 1820s a transformation took place in how smell and the senses were viewed. The role of smell in developing medical and scientific knowledge came under intense scrutiny, and the equation of smell with disease was actively questioned. Yet a new interest in smell's emotive and idiosyncratic dimensions offered odour a new power in the sociable spaces of eighteenth-century England. Using a wide range of sources from diaries, letters, and sanitary records to satirical prints, consumer objects, and magazines, William Tullett traces how individuals and communities perceived the smells around them, from paint and perfume to onions and farts. In doing so, the study challenges a popular, influential, and often cited narrative. Smell in Eighteenth-Century England is not a tale of the medicalization and deodorization of English olfactory culture. Instead, Tullett demonstrates that it was a new recognition of smell's asocial-sociability, and its capacity to create atmospheres of uncomfortable intimacy, that transformed the relationship between the senses and society.