Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain A Nation of Makers
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at De Montfort University, UK. She has published on albums, wallpaper, consumer culture and childhood in the eighteenth century. Her book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Chloe Wigston Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for 18th Century Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Women, Work, and Clothes in the 18th-Century Novel (2013), as well as articles on women in literature, material culture studies and fashion culture.
This collection adds significant depth to consumer-focused histories of the eighteenth century, providing a valuable model of material literacy for future scholars. It challenges entrenched boundaries between producers and consumers, and moves our understanding of engagement with the material world beyond the shop counter to the varied and multiple spaces in which it might take place. This forms a vital step forward in histories of consumption, but the volume is of broader significance for scholars of the eighteenth century and beyond as it also speaks powerfully to gender and status hierarchies of knowledge, print culture, commerce, and colonial entanglements.
Cultural and Social History
This book has much to recommend to anyone interested in the material culture of the eighteenth century. Individual chapters and groups of chapters will also make fascinating reading for scholars interested in the place of reconstruction in academic work, the status of craft and craft knowledge in Britain (and elsewhere), the textile, clothing and furnishing trades, shopping, and visual culture.
Journal of Dress History
[<i>Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain</i>] is a beautifully illustrated, multi-perspective volume that will be essential reading for anyone working on material culture.
Women's Studies Group
<i>Material Literacy</i> brings together a wealth of experienced and emerging talent that demonstrates the vitality and range of material culture studies and points to a vibrant future for further work [âŚ] That eighteenth-century Britain was a ânation of makersâ is unquestionably demonstrated within this volume. [âŚ] With the range of essays and the diversity of expertise evident within them, <i>Material Literacy</i> will surely become a central and critical piece for readers and scholars at all levels who are interested in material culture studies.
Eighteenth-Century Fiction
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Om bidragsyterne
Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design and Material Culture at De Montfort University, UK. She has published on albums, wallpaper, consumer culture and childhood in the eighteenth century. Her book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.
Chloe Wigston Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for 18th Century Studies at the University of York, UK. She is the author of Women, Work, and Clothes in the 18th-Century Novel (2013), as well as articles on women in literature, material culture studies and fashion culture.