Batchelor / Kaplan Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830

1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-22309-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Batchelor, J.

Kaplan, C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J .Batchelor & C.Kaplan SECTION I: DRESS AND ADORNMENT Women and their Jewels; M.Pointon Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850; B.Burman & J.White 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats, and New Identities; J.Heydt-Stevenson SECTION II: WOMEN AND SCULPTURE Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Federovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts; R.P.Blakesley Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-Century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices; M.Sterckx A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-Fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence; A.Escott SECTION III: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF EMPIRE 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside In': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825); E.K.Johnson Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade; D.L.Porter White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion; E.K.Wallace SECTION IV: WOMEN AND BOOKS Reinstating 'The Pamela Vogue'; J.Batchelor The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting, and Anglo-German Exchange; A.Johns 'Books Without Which I Cannot Write': How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?; S.Staves Select Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ROSALIND POLLY BLAKESLEY Senior Lecturer in the History of Art, University of Cambridge, UK
BARBARA BURMAN Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Textiles and Dress, University of Southampton, UK
ANGELA ESCOTT Music librarian working with a national collection of music manuscripts
JILLIAN HEYDT-STEVENSON Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
ALESSA JOHNS Associate Professor, University of California, Davis, USA
ELLEN KENNEDY JOHNSON Professor English, Arizona State University, USA
ELIZABETH KOWALESKI WALLACE Professor of English, Boston College, USA
MARCIA POINTON Professor Emeritus, Manchester University, UK
DAVID PORTER Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan, USA
MARJAN STERCKX Research Assistant of the Fund for Scientific Research-Flanders, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
SUSAN STAVES Professor Emeritus of English, Brandeis University, USA
JONATHAN WHITE Independent scholar