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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Female Vice? Women and Luxury
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Front Matter
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Luxury and the Exotic
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Front Matter
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About this book
Reviews
'This volume significantly advances our knowledge of the topic and makes clear, once and for all, that a decisive change occurred in the long eighteenth century. It also...points the way forward to an approach that combines an account of values and beliefs with the detailed analysis of specific material goods.' - John Brewer, John and Marion Sullivan University Professor, University of Chicago, USA
'In this volume late twentieth-century scholars fasten with enthusiasm on both the practicalities that created evermore consumer goods and exalted luxury, and on the philosophical controversies and imaginative literature that it endangered. They marry literature and history in a most stimulating collection...This is a thought-provoking book...The text establishes an impressive network of connections not only between literature and history, but with moral philosophy and aesthetics as well. It will surely spark more investigations of consumerism and luxury.' - Joan Thirsk, Literature and History
'[In] Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger's excellent new collection of essays, Luxury in the Eighteenth Century...we find a subtle historical argument that describes how the concept of luxury emerged from inherited moral and religious discourses, to become an integral part of our understanding of modernity' - David Mazella, Eighteenth Century Studies
'Luxury in the Eighteenth Century provides both a synopsis of existing literature on the subject and a major step forward in tis analysis. It is an important academic landmark. It is refreshing that Asian and American viewpoints are embraced, adding depth and an important corrective to our understanding of the English 'long eighteenth century'.' - Helen Clifford, Journal of Design History
Editors and Affiliations
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University of Warwick, UK
Maxine Berg
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Department of English, University of Liverpool, UK
Elizabeth Eger
About the editors
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Luxury in the Eighteenth Century
Book Subtitle: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods
Editors: Maxine Berg, Elizabeth Eger
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230508279
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2003
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-96382-1Published: 17 February 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-51779-0Published: 17 February 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-50827-9Published: 11 January 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 280
Topics: Cultural History, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural and Media Studies, general, Social History, Economic History