Women and material culture, 1660-1830
By: edited by Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan
Contributors: Batchelor, Jennie, 1976-; Kaplan, Cora
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780230007055
Subjects: Women -- Europe -- Social conditions; Women consumers -- Europe -- History; Material culture -- Europe -- History; Material culture in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index
Table of contents: title: Women and their jewels / Marcia Pointon; title: Fanny's pockets: cotton, consumption and domestic economy, 1780-1850 / Barbara Burman, Jonathan White; title: 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': new shops, new hats and new identities / Jillian Heydt-Stevenson; title: Sculpting tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a producer and consumer of the arts / Rosalind P. Blakesley; title: Pride and prejudice: eighteenth-century women sculptors and their material practices / Marjan Steckx; title: A female sculptor and connoisseur: artistic self-fashioning and the exposure of connoisseurship, collecting and concupiscence / Angela Escott; title: 'The taste for bringing the outside in': nationalism, gender and landscape wallpaper (1700-1825) / Ellen Kennedy Johnson; title: Taihu tatlers: aesthetic translation in the China trade / David Porter; title: White slavery: Hannah More, women and fashion / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace; title: Reinstating the 'Pamela Vogue' / Jennie Batchelor; title: The book as cosmopolitan object: women's publishing, collecting and Anglo-German exchange / Alessa Johns; title: 'Books without which I cannot write': how did eighteenth-century women writers get the books they read? / Susan Staves