Luxury in the Eighteenth Century Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods

Name: Luxury in the Eighteenth Century Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods
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ISBN: 9780333963821

ISBN-10: 0333963822

ISBN-13: 9780333963821

Edition: 2003 (Revised)

Authors: Maxine Berg, Elizabeth Eger

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 2/17/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English



List of Plates


List of Contributors


Acknowledgements


Introduction




Debates



The Rise and Fall of the Luxury Debates




Mandeville, Rousseau and the Political Economy of Fantasy




Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in Theory and Practice




Aestheticising the Critique of Luxury: Smollett's Humphry Clinker




Delectable Goods



Furnishing Discourses: Readings of a Writing Desk in Eighteenth-Century France




The Circulation of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Social Redistribution and an Alternative Currency




Custom or Consumption? Plebeian Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England




Beauty, Taste and Sensibility



From the Moral Mound to the Material Maze: Hogarth's Analysis of Beauty




From Luxury to Comfort and Back Again: Landscape Architecture and the Cottage in Britain and America




Vase Mania




The Female Vice? Women and Luxury



Performing Roxane: The Oriental Woman as the Sign of Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Fictions




Luxury, Satire and Prostitute Narratives




Luxury, Industry and Charity: Bluestocking Culture Displayed




Luxury and the Exotic



Luxuries or Not? Consumption of Silk and Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century China




Luxury, Clothing and Race in Colonial Spanish America




Asian Luxuries and the Making of the European Consumer Revolution



Index