Eighteenth-century Thing Theory in a Global Context : From Consumerism to Celebrity Culture (Hardcover, New ed)

Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Ileana Baird
Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects
Christina Ionescu
Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques
1  Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse
Christine A. Jones
2  Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity
Kevin Bourque
3  Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook’s Voyages and the Objects of the Museum
Sophie Thomas
4  Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Kevin M. McGeough
Part II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books
5  Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode
Victoria Ivleva
6  From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot’s The Russian Journals
Pamela Buck
7  “The Battle of the Books” in Catherine the Great’s Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl
Rimma Garn
Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps
8  From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal
Mauricio E. Martinez
9  Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century
Krystal McMillen
10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe
Irene Fizer
11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space
Lauren Beck
Part IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects
12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box
Laure Marcellesi
13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbe Prevost’s Histoire Generale des Voyages
Antoine Eche
14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
Jessica Durgan