Format:
1 Online-Ressource (386 pages)
ISBN:
9781472413307
Content:
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
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472413291
Additional Edition:
Print version Baird, Ileana Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context : From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture Farnham : Taylor & Francis,c2014 ISBN 9781472413291
Language:
English
