Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
by Batchelor, Jennie; Kaplan, CoraFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-07-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Women and Material Culture comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the long eighteenth century. Written by an international group of scholars working in the fields of visual culture, dress history and literary criticism, these essays point to the manifold ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods (from clothing and artworks to books) and elucidate the complex, shifting relationships between material and social practice in the period.
Author Biography
JENNIE BATCHELOR is Lecturer in English at the University of Kent. CORA KAPLAN is a scholar of international distinction in the areas of nineteenth-and twentieth-century cultural criticsm and hsitory and of feminist theory.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures | p. vii |
| Notes on the Contributors | p. ix |
| Acknowledgements | p. xii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Dress and Adornment | p. 9 |
| Women and their Jewels | p. 11 |
| Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850 | p. 31 |
| 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats and New Identities | p. 52 |
| Women and Sculpture | p. 69 |
| Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts | p. 71 |
| Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices | p. 86 |
| A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence | p. 103 |
| The Material Culture of Empire | p. 117 |
| 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside in': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825) | p. 119 |
| Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade | p. 134 |
| White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion | p. 148 |
| Women and Books | p. 161 |
| Reinstating the 'Pamela Vogue' | p. 163 |
| The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange | p. 176 |
| 'Books without which I cannot write': How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read? | p. 192 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 213 |
| Index | p. 217 |
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