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- catalog abstract ""This volume explores the political, economic and moral effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, tying the concept to contemporary discourse on taste, civility and sensibility, aesthetics and literary genres. This cultural history provides a broadly-based focus on luxury in a series of tightly linked sections addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, aesthetic principles, luxury as a female vice and the exotic."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Luxury in the 18th century".
- catalog contributor b12802484.
- catalog contributor b12802485.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""This volume explores the political, economic and moral effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, tying the concept to contemporary discourse on taste, civility and sensibility, aesthetics and literary genres. This cultural history provides a broadly-based focus on luxury in a series of tightly linked sections addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, aesthetic principles, luxury as a female vice and the exotic."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "The rise and fall of the luxury debates / Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger -- Mandeville, Rousseau and the political economy of fantasy / Edward Hundert -- Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in theory and practice / Jan de Vries -- Aestheticising the critique of luxury : Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Michael McKeon -- Furnishing discourses : readings of a writing desk in eighteenth-century France / Dena Goodman -- The circulation of luxury goods in eighteenth-century Paris : social redistribution and an alternative currency / Laurence Fontaine -- Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles -- From the moral mound to the material maze : Hogarth's Analysis of beauty / Annie Richardson -- From luxury to comfort and back again : landscape architecture and the cottage in Britain and America / John Crowley -- Vase mania / Jenny Uglow -- Performing Roxane : the Oriental woman as the sign of luxury in eighteenth-century fictions / Ros Ballaster -- Luxury, satire and prostitute narratives / Vivien Jones -- Luxury, industry and charity : bluestocking culture displayed / Elizabeth Eger -- Luxuries or not? Consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth-century China / Shelagh Vainker -- Luxury, clothing and race in colonial Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Asian luxuries and the making of the European consumer revolution / Maxine Berg.".
- catalog extent "xii, 259 p., [18] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "023051779X (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0333963822".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog subject "306.3 21".
- catalog subject "Economic history 1600-1750.".
- catalog subject "Economic history 1750-1918.".
- catalog subject "HC52.5 .L89 2003".
- catalog subject "Luxury History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Wealth History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The rise and fall of the luxury debates / Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger -- Mandeville, Rousseau and the political economy of fantasy / Edward Hundert -- Luxury in the Dutch Golden Age in theory and practice / Jan de Vries -- Aestheticising the critique of luxury : Smollett's Humphry Clinker / Michael McKeon -- Furnishing discourses : readings of a writing desk in eighteenth-century France / Dena Goodman -- The circulation of luxury goods in eighteenth-century Paris : social redistribution and an alternative currency / Laurence Fontaine -- Custom or consumption? Plebeian fashion in eighteenth-century England / John Styles -- From the moral mound to the material maze : Hogarth's Analysis of beauty / Annie Richardson -- From luxury to comfort and back again : landscape architecture and the cottage in Britain and America / John Crowley -- Vase mania / Jenny Uglow -- Performing Roxane : the Oriental woman as the sign of luxury in eighteenth-century fictions / Ros Ballaster -- Luxury, satire and prostitute narratives / Vivien Jones -- Luxury, industry and charity : bluestocking culture displayed / Elizabeth Eger -- Luxuries or not? Consumption of silk and porcelain in eighteenth-century China / Shelagh Vainker -- Luxury, clothing and race in colonial Spanish America / Rebecca Earle -- Asian luxuries and the making of the European consumer revolution / Maxine Berg.".
- catalog title "Luxury in the 18th century".
- catalog title "Luxury in the eighteenth century : debates, desires and delectable goods / edited by Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".