Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Berg, Maxine, 1950-
2. Eger, Elizabeth

Description

1. xii, 259 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

1. Economic history > 1750-1918
2. Economic history > 1600-1750
3. Luxury > History > 18th century
4. Wealth > History > 18th century

Contents

1. The rise and fall of the luxury debates / Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger -- Mandeville, Rousseau and the political economy of fantasy / Edward Hundert -- Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in theory and practice / Jan de Vries -- Aestheticising the critique of luxury : Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Michael McKeon -- Furnishing discourses : readings of a writing desk in eighteenth-century France / Dena Goodman -- The circulation of luxury goods in eighteenth-century Paris : social redistribution and an alternative currency / Laurence Fontaine -- Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles -- From the moral mound to the material maze : Hogarth's Analysis of beauty / Annie Richardson -- From luxury to comfort and back again : landscape architecture and the cottage in Britain and America / John Crowley -- Vase mania / Jenny Uglow -- Performing Roxane : the Oriental woman as the sign of luxury in eighteenth-century fictions / Ros Ballaster -- Luxury, satire and prostitute narratives / Vivien Jones -- Luxury, industry and charity : bluestocking culture displayed / Elizabeth Eger -- Luxuries or not? Consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth-century China / Shelagh Vainker -- Luxury, clothing and race in colonial Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Asian luxuries and the making of the European consumer revolution / Maxine Berg.

Call number

1. JFE 10-4168

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Luxury in the eighteenth century : debates, desires and delectable goods / edited by Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger.

Imprint

1. Houndmills, Balsingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2003.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description

Added author

1. Berg, Maxine, 1950-
2. Eger, Elizabeth.

LCCN

1. 2002075805

ISBN

1. 0333963822
2. 9780333963821

Research call number

1. JFE 10-4168