Featuring tiny books, buttons, ceramic trinkets, toothpick cases, handkerchiefs, mugs, tea caddies, coins and much more, this interdisciplinary book explores how people in the eighteenth century interacted with the small things they used, wore, played with, and displayed to signal their engagement with the larger world.
Featuring tiny books, buttons, ceramic trinkets, toothpick cases, handkerchiefs, mugs, tea caddies, coins and much more, this interdisciplinary book explores how people in the eighteenth century interacted with the small things they used, wore, played with, and displayed to signal their engagement with the larger world.
Introduction: The Scale and Sense of Small Things Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin; Part I. Reading Small Things: 1. The sum of All in All : The miniature book and the nature of legibility Abigail Williams; 2. Nuts, flies, thimbles, and thumbs: Eighteenth-century children's literature and scale Katherine Wakely-Mulroney; 3. Gothic syntax Cynthia Wall; 4. Small, familiar things on trial and on stage Chloe Wigston Smith; Part II. Small Things in Time and Space: 5. On the smallness of numismatic objects Crystal B. Lake; 6. Crinoidal limestone and Staffordshire teapots: Material and temporal scales in eighteenth-century Britain Kate Smith; 7. Joinerianä: The small fragments and parts of eighteenth-century assemblages Freya Gowrley; 8. Pray what a pox are those damned strings of Wampum? : British understandings of Wampum in the eighteenth century Robbie Richardson; Part III. Small Things at Hand: 9. We bought a guillotine neatly done in bone : Illicit industries on board British prison hulks, 1775 1815 Anna McKay; 10. What number? : Reform, authority, and identity in late-eighteenth-century military buttons Matthew Keagle; 11. Two men's leather letter cases: Mercantile pride and hierarchies of display Pauline Rushton; 12. The aesthetic of smallness: Chelsea porcelain seal trinkets and Britain's global gaze, 1750 1775 Patricia F. Ferguson; 13. Small gifts foster friendship : Hortense de Beauharnais, amateur art, and the politics of exchange in post-revolutionary France Marina Kliger; Part IV. Small Things on the Move: 14. Hooke's ant Tita Chico; 15. Portable patriotism: Britannia and material nationhood in miniature Serena Dyer; 16. Revolutionary histories in small things: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on printed ceramics, c. 1793 1796 Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth; 17. A box of tea and the British Empire Romita Ray; 18. Afterword: A thing's perspective Hanneke Grootenboer.
Introduction: The Scale and Sense of Small Things Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin; Part I. Reading Small Things: 1. The sum of All in All : The miniature book and the nature of legibility Abigail Williams; 2. Nuts, flies, thimbles, and thumbs: Eighteenth-century children's literature and scale Katherine Wakely-Mulroney; 3. Gothic syntax Cynthia Wall; 4. Small, familiar things on trial and on stage Chloe Wigston Smith; Part II. Small Things in Time and Space: 5. On the smallness of numismatic objects Crystal B. Lake; 6. Crinoidal limestone and Staffordshire teapots: Material and temporal scales in eighteenth-century Britain Kate Smith; 7. Joinerianä: The small fragments and parts of eighteenth-century assemblages Freya Gowrley; 8. Pray what a pox are those damned strings of Wampum? : British understandings of Wampum in the eighteenth century Robbie Richardson; Part III. Small Things at Hand: 9. We bought a guillotine neatly done in bone : Illicit industries on board British prison hulks, 1775 1815 Anna McKay; 10. What number? : Reform, authority, and identity in late-eighteenth-century military buttons Matthew Keagle; 11. Two men's leather letter cases: Mercantile pride and hierarchies of display Pauline Rushton; 12. The aesthetic of smallness: Chelsea porcelain seal trinkets and Britain's global gaze, 1750 1775 Patricia F. Ferguson; 13. Small gifts foster friendship : Hortense de Beauharnais, amateur art, and the politics of exchange in post-revolutionary France Marina Kliger; Part IV. Small Things on the Move: 14. Hooke's ant Tita Chico; 15. Portable patriotism: Britannia and material nationhood in miniature Serena Dyer; 16. Revolutionary histories in small things: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on printed ceramics, c. 1793 1796 Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth; 17. A box of tea and the British Empire Romita Ray; 18. Afterword: A thing's perspective Hanneke Grootenboer.
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