The consumption of culture 1600-1800 : image, object, text / edited by Ann Bermingham and John Brewer.
Contributor(s): Bermingham, Ann
| Brewer, John.
Material type: 
BookPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995Description: xiv, 548 p : ill. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0415159970.Subject(s): Consumption (Economics) -- History | Culture -- History | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 17th century | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 18th century | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 17th century | Great Britain -- Civilization -- 18th century | Europe -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306.09032
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 306.09032 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00066396 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Culture does not become 'culture' until it is consumed. This is the radical new interpretation of early modern social history presented in The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800.
Leading specialists from North America and Europe explore topics such as the formation of a culture consuming public, the development of a literary canon, the role of consumption in the formation of the modern state, elite and popular forms of cultural consumption and the place of women as consumers of culture. The result is an important and rich new approach to the study of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Tables List of plates Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction Ann Bermingham
- Part I The Formation of a Public for Art and Literature
- Part II Engendering the Literary Canon
- Part III Consumption and the Modern State
- Part IV The Social Order: Culture High and Low
- Part V What Women Want Tables