Furnishing the Eighteenth Century

What Furniture Can Tell Us about the European and American Past
Herausgeber: Goodman, Dena; Norberg, Kathryn

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Produktbeschreibung

Furnishing the Eighteenth Century provides an illuminating, interdisciplinary look into European and American furniture during the century that connoisseurs and collectors consider its golden age. Lavishly illustrated, this lively collection of essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars examines the ways furniture of this period reflects the global contacts and social rituals developed in eighteenth-century Europe and America. Drawing on literature, painting, account books and death inventories, this diverse compilation explores how and why eighteenth-century men and women on both sides of the Atlantic purchased and used furniture. Ultimately, these essays make the past come alive, showing us what made desks, tables and chairs deeply meaningful in their own time and historically informative today. Contributors: Donna Bohanan, Natacha Coquery, Madeleine Dobie, Dena Goodman, Mimi Hellman, David Jaffee, Ann Smart Martin, Kathryn Norberg, Chaela Pastore, David Porter, Mary Salzman, Carolyn Sargentson

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9780415884792
• ISBN-10: 0415884799
• Artikelnr.: 29933650

Autorenporträt

Dena Goodman is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, and the editor of Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen (Routledge). Kathryn Norberg teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Rich and Poor in Grenoble and the coeditor (with Sara Melzer) of From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg
Part 1: Mapping Meaning Globally
1. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Furniture in Eighteenth-Century France
Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University
2. Luxury Markets in Saint Domingue: Mahogany as a Case Study
Chaela Pastore, California State University, San Marcos
3. "A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place": Hogarth and the Gendering of
Exoticism in the Eighteenth-Century Interior
David Porter, University of Michigan
Part 2: Diffusion
4. Fashion, Business, Diffusion: An Upholsterer's Shop in
Eighteenth-Century Paris
Translated by Kathryn Norberg & Dena Goodman
Natacha Coquery, Université de Tours
5. Sideboards, Side Chairs, and Globes: Changing Modes of Furnishing
Provincial Culture in the Early Republic, 1790-1820
David Jaffee, University of North Florida
Part 3: Social Meaning and Social Power
6. Color Schemes and Decorative Tastes in the Noble Houses of
Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné
Donna Bohanon, Auburn University
7. Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America
Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
8. Goddess of Taste: Courtesans and their Furniture in the Late Eighteenth
Century
Kathryn Norberg
9. Decoration and Enlightened Spectatorship
Mary Salzman, Stanford University
Part 4: Hidden Meanings: Psychology and Security
10. The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Seriality in the French Interior
Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College
11. The Secretaire and the Integration of the Eighteenth-Century Self
Dena Goodman
12. Looking at Furniture Inside Out: Strategies for Concealment and Secrecy
in Eighteenth-Century French Furniture
Carolyn Sargentson, Victoria and Albert Museum
Notes on Contributors
Index