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Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

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The 18th century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nation of makers. It brings new attention to 18th-century craftswomen and men with its focus on the material knowledge possessed not only by professional artisans and amateur makers, but also by skilled consumers. This book gathers together a group of interdisciplinary scholars working in the fields of art history, history, literature and museum studies to unearth the tactile and tacit knowledge that underpinned fashion, tailoring and textile production. It invites us into the workshops, drawing rooms and backrooms of a broad range of creators, and uncovers how production and manual knowledge extended beyond the factories and machines which dominate industrial histories.

This book illuminates, for the first time, the material literacies learnt, enacted and understood by British producers and consumers. The skills required for sewing, embroidering and the textile arts were possessed by a large proportion of the British population: men, women and children, professional and amateur alike. Building on previous studies of shoppers and consumption in the period, as well as narratives of manufacture, this collection documents the multiplicity of small producers behind Britain’s consumer revolution, reshaping our understanding of the dynamics between making and objects, consumption and production. It demonstrates how material knowledge formed an essential part of daily life for eighteenth-century Britons. Craft technique, practice and production, the contributors show, constituted forms of tactile languages that joined makers together, whether they produced objects for profit or pleasure.

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Sprogversion

Engelsk

Bogomslagstype

Paperback

Antal sider

328 Sider

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Ethvert køn

Skrevet af

Serena Dyer (Anthology Editor), Chloe Wigston Smith (Anthology Editor)

Udgiver

Bloomsbury Publishing

Udgivelsesdato

03/11/2022

International standard bookingnummer (ISBN)

9781350282414

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Bredde

234 mm

Højde

156 mm

Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain

343 kr.

343 kr.

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Tirs., 15 apr. - ons., 23 apr.


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