Format:
XI, 277 S.
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Ill.
ISBN:
0415726301
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9780415726306
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in cultural history 26
Content:
"Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. 'The environment' may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans"--
Note:
Introduction: The Many Lives of Recycling
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The Social Circulation of Luxury and Second-Hand Goods in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Shops
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Luxury and Country House Sales in England, c.1760-1830
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Recycling the Wreckage of History : On the Rise of an "Antiquarian Consumer Culture" in the Southern Netherlands
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Recycling Orientalia : William Beckford's Æsthetics of Appropriation
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Part II. The Stewardship of Objects and the Material Practices of Recycling ; Recycling the City : Paris, 1760s-1800
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Renewing and Refashioning : Recycling Furniture at the Late Stuart Court (1689-1714)
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Invisible Mending? : Ceramic Repair in Eighteenth-Century England
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Sentimental Economics : Recycling Textiles in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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Science and Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Recycling the Sacred : The Wax Votive Object and the Eighteenth-Century Wax Baby Doll
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Part III. Textual Recyclings ; Inventive Mendicancy, Thrift and Extravagance Manifested in Re-Circulated Material in an Eighteenth-Century Library
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Unstable Shades of Grey : Cloth and Paper in Addison's Periodicals
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Black Transactions : Waste and Abundance in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa
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"Never Was a Thing Put to So Many Uses" : Transfer and Transformation in Laurence Sterne's Fiction (1759-1768)
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Recycling a Medical Case : The Walpoles' Stone and Gravel
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781315794594
Language:
English
Keywords:
Recycling
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Geschichte 1689-1830
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Aufsatzsammlung
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