Title & Author:

The consumption of culture, 1600-1800 : image, object, text / edited by Ann Bermingham and John Brewer.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 1995.

Description:

xiv, 548 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Series:

Consumption and culture in 17th and 18th centuries ; 3

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction. The consumption of culture: image, object, text / Ann Bermingham -- 2. Subjective powers? Consumption, the reading public, and domestic woman in early eighteenth-century England / Terry Lovell -- 3. Reading women. Text and image in eighteenth-century England / Peter H. Pawlowicz -- 4. Colonizing readers. Review criticism and the formation of a reading public / Frank Donoghue -- 5. Expanding on portraiture. The market, the public, and the hierarchy of genres in eighteenth-century Britain / Louise Lippincott -- 6. The abandoned hero. The decline of state authority in the direction of French painting as seen in the career of one exemplary theme, 1777-89 / Thomas Crow -- 7. Gombrich and the rise of landscape / W. J. T. Mitchell -- 8. British Romanticism, gender, and three women artists / Anne K. Mellor -- 9. The "exchange of letters." Early modern contradictions and postmodern conundrums / Don E. Wayne -- 10. Author-mongering. The "editor" between producer and consumer / Robert Hiffe -- 11. Shot from canons; or, Maria Edgeworth and the cultural production and consumption of the eighteenth-century woman writer / Mitzi Myers -- 12. Polygamy, Pamela, and the prerogative of empire / Felicity A. Nussbaum -- 13. The good, the bad, and the impotent. Imperialism and the politics of identity in Georgian England / Kathleen Wilson -- 14. The state's demand for accurate astronomical and navigational instruments in eighteenth-century Britain / Richard Sorrenson -- 15. Signs and citizens. Sign language and visual sign in the French Revolution / Nicholas Mirzoeff -- 16. Outrages. Sculpture and kingship in France after 1789 / Anne M. Wagner -- 17. Dante's Restaurant. The cultural work of experiment in early modern Tuscany / Jay Tribby -- 18. "The most polite age and the most vicious." Attitudes towards culture as a commodity, 1660-1800 / John Brewer -- 19. Politeness for plebes. Consumption and social identity in early eighteenth-century England / Lawrence E. Klein -- 20. Emulative consumption and literacy. The Harlot, Moll Flanders, and Mrs. Slipslop / Ronald Paulson -- 21. "La chose publique." Hubert Robert's decorations for the "petit salon" at Mereville / Paula Rea Radisich -- 22. "News from the New Exchange". Commodity, erotic fantasy, and the female entrepreneur / James Grantham Turner -- 23. Women's participation in the urban culture of early modern London. Images from fiction / Elizabeth Bennett Kubek -- 24. The im/modesty of her sex. Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Salon of 1783 / Mary D. Sheriff -- 25. Elegant females and gentlemen connoisseurs. The commerce in culture and self-image in eighteenth-century England / Ann Bermingham -- 26. Social order and the domestic consumption of music. The politics of sound in the policing of gender construction in eighteenth-century England / Richard Leppert.
Dust jacket.

ISBN:

0415121353
9780415121354

Subject:

Consumption (Economics) History.
Culture History.
Civilization.
Consumption (Economics)
Culture.
Manners and customs.
Great Britain Social life and customs 18th century.
Great Britain Social life and customs 17th century.
Great Britain Civilization 18th century.
Great Britain Civilization 17th century.
Europe Social life and customs.
Europe Civilization.
Grande-Bretagne Mœurs et coutumes 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Mœurs et coutumes 17e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 18e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne Civilisation 17e siècle.
Europe Mœurs et coutumes.
Europe Civilisation.
Europe.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Bermingham, Ann.
Brewer, John, 1947-
Consumption and culture in the 17th and 18th centuries ; 3.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 85837
Call No.: ID PLS DA485.C667; ID:95-B3846
Status: Available