Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture
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 global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
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Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture
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 global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.
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Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture

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

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

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

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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 global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781317145448
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 04/29/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 386
File size: 25 MB
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About the Author

Ileana Baird is a Postdoctoral Preceptorship Fellow at the University of Virginia, USA.

Christina Ionescu is an Associate Professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies Ileana Baird Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects Christina Ionescu Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques 1  Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse Christine A. Jones 2  Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity Kevin Bourque 3  Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook’s Voyages and the Objects of the Museum Sophie Thomas 4  Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe Kevin M. McGeough 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 Victoria Ivleva 6  From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot’s The Russian Journals Pamela Buck 7  “The Battle of the Books” in Catherine the Great’s Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl Rimma Garn 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 Mauricio E. Martinez 9  Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century Krystal McMillen 10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe Irene Fizer 11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space Lauren Beck 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 Laure Marcellesi 13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbé Prévost’s Histoire Générale des Voyages Antoine Eche 14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Jessica Durgan
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