Synopses & Reviews
From tulips to jewels, gastronomy to silver, coffee to colors, the late seventeenth century and the eighteenth century saw an explosion of consumer and luxury objects and a growing demand for their consumption by a widening section of the population. This highly entertaining and interdisciplinary volume brings together an outstanding group of scholars to chart the rise of consumer culture in Europe during this period. The volume includes essays on France and Holland, but the focus is primarily on Britain.
About the Author
Maxine Berg is Reader in the Department of History at the University of Warwick.
Helen Clifford is a member of the Research Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Table of Contents
Luxury and Necessity * Adam Smith's Accommodation of "Altogether Endless" Desires--Neil de Marchi * Sans-Culottes, Sans Café, Sans Tabac: Shifting Realms of Necessity and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France--Colin Jones & Rebecca Spang * New Commodities, Luxuries and their Consumers in Eighteenth-Century England--Maxine Berg *
Novelty and Imitation * In the Name of the Tulip. Why Speculation?--Marini Bianchi * Colour and Colour-Making in the Eighteenth Century--Sarah Lowengard *
Public and Private * Jewellery in the Eighteenth Century--Marcia Pointon * A Commerce with Things: Estimations of the Worth and Workmanship of Precious Metalwork in Early Modern England--Helen Clifford *
Excess, Taste and Fashion * Making a Science of Taste: The Revolution, the Learned Life and the Invention of
Gastronomie --Emma Spary * "Quality Always Distinguishes Itself": Louis Hippolyte Leroy and the Luxury Clothing Industry in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris--Fiona Foulkes *
Identity and Display * Romanticism and the Urge to Consume in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century--Stana Nenadic * The National Gallery in London and its Public--Charlotte Klonk
Luxury and Necessity * Adam Smith's Accommodation of "Altogether Endless" Desires--Neil de Marchi * Sans-Culottes, Sans Café, Sans Tabac: Shifting Realms of Necessity and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century France--Colin Jones & Rebecca Spang * New Commodities, Luxuries and their Consumers in Eighteenth-Century England--Maxine Berg * Novelty and Imitation * In the Name of the Tulip. Why Speculation?--Marini Bianchi * Colour and Colour-Making in the Eighteenth Century--Sarah Lowengard * Public and Private * Jewellery in the Eighteenth Century--Marcia Pointon * A Commerce with Things: Estimations of the Worth and Workmanship of Precious Metalwork in Early Modern England--Helen Clifford * Excess, Taste and Fashion * Making a Science of Taste: The Revolution, the Learned Life and the Invention of Gastronomie --Emma Spary * "Quality Always Distinguishes Itself": Louis Hippolyte Leroy and the Luxury Clothing Industry in Early Nineteenth-Century Paris--Fiona Foulkes * Identity and Display * Romanticism and the Urge to Consume in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century--Stana Nenadic * The National Gallery in London and its Public--Charlotte Klonk