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The Moral Negotiation of Fashion in Regency England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2020) 44 (3): 165–191.
Published: 01 September 2020
...Amanda Vickery Religion and the Georgian world of goods are rarely discussed in tandem. The modern history of consumerism is secular in conceptualization. The booming literature on the Georgian world of goods has engaged only glancingly with religious ideas. A series of prejudices about...
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Clothes of Pamela's Own: Shopping at B Hall
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (2): 201–213.
Published: 01 April 2001
... was not restricted to the upper classes.5 In addition to expense,
there was also that increased emphasis on fashion and consumerism of
which Neil McKendrick and other commentators have written.6
In Richardson’s novels, always rich in telling detail, these signs...
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Georgian Britain: Modernity and the Middle Classes
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2015) 39 (3): 114–117.
Published: 01 September 2015
... brief allu-
sions to the “dark side of consumerism,” there is little mention of some impor-
tant components of consumer culture: industrialization, slavery, and imperial
markets are referred to only briefly, or are buried in euphemistic language,
as in “Britain became wealthy through trade” (55...
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Britain's Appetite for Empire
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2025) 49 (1): 141–146.
Published: 01 January 2025
... exploded from a collection of English colonies and trading outposts into a vast trading network and territory over which a white, largely British-born minority attempted to rule” (161). Few, if any, facets of British culture were unaffected by British imperialism, as well as by the growth of consumerism...
Journal Article
Books Received
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2001) 25 (1): 126–130.
Published: 01 January 2001
... in London, 1770–1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge
Univ., 2000). Pp. xiv + 278. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-56376-3
Morton, Timothy. The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (Cam-
bridge: Cambridge Univ., 2000). Pp. xiii + 282. $59.95. ISBN 0-521-77146-3...
Journal Article
First and Last
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 118–124.
Published: 01 September 2014
... copies of an edition, but it no longer needs to provide us
with a stand-in for the textual object. What was once the funnel function of
bibliography has been inverted into a pyramid. This structural inversion may
indeed be the result of a so-called “consumerization of scholarship,” since pow...
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“Extraneous Bodies”: The Contagion of Live-Tooth Transplantation in Late-Eighteenth-Century England
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2004) 28 (1): 21–68.
Published: 01 January 2004
... consumer culture to which that burgeoning
commercialism gave rise, and all point to one of the paradoxes of an emerg-
ing consumerism. Even as the increasing availability of novel consumer
goods (like “live” teeth) and an accelerating division of labor— exemplified
by the appearance of a dental...
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Food for Thought
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 137–144.
Published: 01 September 2014
... restricted and had no specific Habermassian public sphere of its own. In
tracing the itinerary of coffee from plantation to palate, EE displays a truly
dazzling network of aliment, monarchic power, contemporary business men-
tality, and consumerism. With competition stiffening among colonial pow-
ers...
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New Work on Money, Finance, and Thought in the Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 105–113.
Published: 01 September 2010
... identity to
counter prevailing criticisms of their shallow consumerism.
These analyses still have considerable cache: all four of the books under
review here cite them. In the meantime, however, British and European his-
torians such as Craig Muldrew, John Brewer, Francois Braudel, and Giovanni...
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The Search for “It”
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2010) 34 (3): 114–123.
Published: 01 September 2010
... for building English nationhood and
for exploiting and strengthening a “burgeoning consumer culture.” Simply put,
for Douglas, “The logic of these texts is the logic of consumerism” (153).
The former, Flint’s essay, similarly examines the genre as representing
118 Eighteenth-Century Life...
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“ Bunny ! O! Bunny !”: The Burney Family in Oceania
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2018) 42 (2): 56–72.
Published: 01 April 2018
... and English
Collectors: Cook’s Voyages and the Objects of the Museum,” in Eighteenth-Century
Thing Theory in a Global Context: From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture, ed. Ileana
Baird and Christina Ionescu (Farnham: Ashgate,
.
Margaret Anne Doody, Frances Burney: The Life in the Works...
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“I Will Carry You with Me on the Wings of Immagination”: Aerial Letters and Eighteenth-Century Ballooning
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 168–187.
Published: 01 January 2011
... as a charlatan,
see Lydia Syson, Doctor of Love: Dr. James Graham and His Celestial Bed (London:
Aula Books, 2008).
1 5. Michael Lynn, “Consumerism and the Rise of Balloons in Europe at the
End of the Eighteenth Century,” Science in Context 21 (2008): 73 – 98; the quotation is
from 79.
16...
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Personal Effects: Wigs and Possessive Individualism in the Long Eighteenth Century
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (2): 47–90.
Published: 01 April 2005
...
swelled to some 850 strong by 1760 becomes a kind of natural accumula-
tion arising from emulative consumerism.11 If the French rise of the wig
is typically attributed to the court’s imitation of royal sartorial choices, in
England wigs are given a continental pedigree, having crossed the chan-
nel...
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The Enlightenment's Dark Spaces: Library as Heterotopia in The Dunciad in Four Books (1743)
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2024) 48 (3): 62–81.
Published: 01 September 2024
..., the insatiable appetite of the hack author, exemplary in its unparalleled ravenousness. Rescued from being reassigned new uses, such as lighting candles or wrapping pies, these books are preserved in a space that illuminates the logic of their production as being one of voracious consumerism. The third...
FIGURES
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The Arts of Beauty: Women's Cosmetics and Pope's Ekphrasis
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2002) 26 (1): 1–23.
Published: 01 January 2002
... that promotes itself as a
model for understanding: representation by a poet is superior to cosmetic
self-fashioning.
Gauden’s argument that cosmetics allow women to be self-determin-
ing agents is, of course, marked with pitfalls. Consumerism, for example...
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Sparks for Sale: The Culture and Commerce of Fireworks in Early Modern France
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2006) 30 (2): 74–97.
Published: 01 April 2006
... more republican than absolutist. Beginning at
midcentury, pyrotechnicians began creating smaller, more aff ordable dis-
plays for paying audiences, perhaps as a means of improving their profi ts
and taking advantage of the growth in consumerism occurring at about...
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Searching for the Self in Eighteenth-Century English Criminal Trials,1730-1800
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2003) 27 (1): 85–106.
Published: 01 January 2003
... susceptibility to one’s
own feelings and the feelings of others with the power to preserve human-
ity in the face of secularization, industrialization, and consumerism.7 The
relationship between emotion and morality preoccupied the era of sensi-
bility and is markedly...
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Mystifying What Matters: Erotic Antiquarianism in Erasmus Darwin’s Portland Vase
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2014) 38 (3): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2014
...
Forms of Natural History, ed. Noah Heringman (Albany: SUNY, 2003), 139–71. On
Darwin and imperialism more generally, see Timothy Morton, The Poetics of Spice:
Romantic Consumerism and the Exotic (New York: Cambridge Univ., 2000); Tim
Fulford, Debbie Lee, and Peter Kitson, Literature, Science...
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Collections Curieuses: The Aesthetics of Curiosity and Elite Lifestyle in Eighteenth-Century Paris
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Eighteenth-Century Life (2005) 29 (3): 44–75.
Published: 01 September 2005
... edn. (Paris: Berger-Levrault, 1997); and Luxury Trades and Consumerism in
Ancien Régime Paris: Studies in the History of the Skilled Workforce, ed. Robert Fox and
Anthony Turner (Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998).
44. Matthieu Marraud, in La noblesse de Paris au XVIIIe siècle (Paris: Editions
du...