Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction; J .Batchelor & C.Kaplan SECTION I: DRESS AND ADORNMENT Women and their Jewels; M.Pointon Fanny's Pockets: Cotton, Consumption and Domestic Economy, 1780-1850; B.Burman & J.White 'Changing her gown and setting her head to rights': New Shops, New Hats, and New Identities; J.Heydt-Stevenson SECTION II: WOMEN AND SCULPTURE Sculpting in Tiaras: Grand Duchess Maria Federovna as a Producer and Consumer of the Arts; R.P.Blakesley Pride and Prejudice: Eighteenth-Century Women Sculptors and their Material Practices; M.Sterckx A Female Sculptor and Connoisseur: Artistic Self-Fashioning and the Exposure of Connoisseurship, Collecting and Concupiscence; A.Escott SECTION III: THE MATERIAL CULTURE OF EMPIRE 'The Taste for Bringing the Outside In': Nationalism, Gender and Landscape Wallpaper (1700-1825); E.K.Johnson Taihu Tatlers: Aesthetic Translation in the China Trade; D.L.Porter White Slavery: Hannah More, Women and Fashion; E.K.Wallace SECTION IV: WOMEN AND BOOKS Reinstating 'The Pamela Vogue'; J.Batchelor The Book as Cosmopolitan Object: Women's Publishing, Collecting, and Anglo-German Exchange; A.Johns 'Books Without Which I Cannot Write': How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?; S.Staves Select Bibliography Index