Women and Material Culture, 1680-1830
Women and Material Culture comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the long eighteenth century. Written by an international group of scholars working in the fields of visual culture, dress history and literary criticism, these essays point to the manifold ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods (from clothing and artworks to books) and elucidate the complex, shifting relationships between...
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Women and Material Culture comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the long eighteenth century. Written by an international group of scholars working in the fields of visual culture, dress history and literary criticism, these essays point to the manifold ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods (from clothing and artworks to books) and elucidate the complex, shifting relationships between material and social practice in the period.
List of Figures viiNotes on the Contributors ixAcknowledgements xiiIntroduction Jennie Batchelor Cora Kaplan 1Dress and Adornment 9Women and their Jewels Marcia Pointon 11Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850 Barbara Burman Jonathan White 31'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats and New Identities Jillian Heydt-Stevenson 52Women and Sculpture 69Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Fedorovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts Rosalind P. Blakesley 71Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices Marjan Sterckx 86A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence Angela Escott 103The Material Culture of Empire 117'The Taste for Bringing the Outside in': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825) Ellen Kennedy Johnson 119Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade David Porter 134White Slavery: Hannah More, Womenand Fashion Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace 148Women and Books 161Reinstating the 'Pamela Vogue' Jennie Batchelor 163The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting and Anglo-German Exchange Alessa Johns 176'Books without which I cannot write': How Did Eighteenth-century Women Writers Get the Books They Read? Susan Staves 192Select Bibliography 213Index 217
