Small Things in the Eighteenth Century (eBook, ePUB)

The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
Redaktion: Smith, Chloe Wigston; Tobin, Beth Fowkes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108999069
• Artikelnr.: 70912600

Inhaltsangabe

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.
"Joineriana": 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.