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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.
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Women and Sculpture
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Reviews
'This outstanding collection provides a timely and compelling intervention in the field of material and cultural history. In collecting these essays together, the editors have combined an astonishing level of focus, detail and scholarly rigour with a breadth and clarity of vision. The result is a highly original and groundbreaking book that asks us to pay attention to questions of scale, texture and possession in the ordering of our lives.' - Dr Elizabeth Eger, Department of English Language& Literature, King's College, University of London, UK
'[This book] is worth reading from cover to cover. All the stories of women and objects are interesting and thought-provoking for the insight they give into different aspects of the triangle of gender, materiality and ideas.' - Reviews in History
'...this easy-to-read volume contributes greatly to our understanding of the social ties of the 1660 1830 timeframe, while explaining some of the trends that we, in the twenty-first century, often take for granted.' - Sophie Nichol Sauvé, The European Legacy
About the authors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830
Editors: Jennie Batchelor, Cora Kaplan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230223097
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2007
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-00705-5Published: 15 June 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-22309-7Published: 15 June 2007
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 223
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, History of Britain and Ireland, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Gender Studies