Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture

• Main Authors: Baird, Ileana, Ionescu, Christina
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Routledge 2013; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 18th century; 18th Century Literature; Art & Visual Culture; Critical Theory; History, Modern; Literary; Literature & Culture; Manners and customs; Material culture; feather; bucknell; fiction; university; Thrale Piozzi; sarah; Strange Surprizing Adventures; Curiosity Items; Del Siglo XVIII; Happy Nation; Sea Turtle; Robert Halleux; Sir Ashton Lever; Peter III; King George III; Goat Skin Cap; Hard Paste Porcelain; Real Academia De La Historia; National Library; press; Harriet Guest; Miniature Portrait; Sarah Stone; Soft Paste Porcelain; National Biography; bill; Mock Turtle; brown; Princess Dashkova; Terra Incognita; stone; James King; cloak; Ta Ge; Leverian Museum

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly g...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies -- Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects -- Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques -- 1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse -- 2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity -- 3 Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook's Voyages and the Objects of the Museum -- 4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Part II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books -- 5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode -- 6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals -- 7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl -- Plates -- Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps -- 8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal -- 9 Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century -- 10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe -- 11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space -- Part IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects
• 12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box -- 13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbé Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages -- 14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• 13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbé Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages -- 14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels -- Select Bibliography -- Index
• Cover -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies -- Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects -- Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques -- 1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse -- 2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity -- 3 Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook's Voyages and the Objects of the Museum -- 4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe -- Part II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books -- 5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode -- 6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals -- 7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl -- Plates -- Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps -- 8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal -- 9 Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century -- 10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe -- 11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space -- Part IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects -- 12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box