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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452832503321

Autore

Smith Woodruff D.

Titolo

Consumption and the making of respectability, 1600-1800 / / by Woodruff D. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

0-429-23875-4

0-203-82641-8

1-283-84641-1

1-136-79395-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

339.4/7

339.47

Soggetti

Consumption (Economics) - Europe - History

Culture - Economic aspects - Europe - History

Electronic books.

Europe Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-331) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONSUMPTION AND THE MAKING OF RESPECTABILITY, 1600�1800 ""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbrevations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Consumption and Culture""; ""Changes in Consumption Patterns in Early Modern Europe""; ""Culture and the Contexts of Consumption""; ""Cultural Contexts""; ""Components of Cultural Contexts""; ""Meaning in Cultural Contexts""; ""Changes in Cultural Contexts""; ""2. Gentility""; ""Status and Consumption""; ""Samuel Pepys, Gentleman""; ""Modes of Gentility""; ""Silks and Calicoes""; ""Underclothing""; ""3. Luxury""

""The Context of Luxury in Early Modern Europe""""Taste""; ""Comfort and Convenience""; ""Spices of Life""; ""Sugar""; ""The Contexts of Condiment Consumption""; ""4. Virtue""; ""Dr. Blankaart�s Prescription for Healthy Living""; ""The Discourse of Virtue""; ""“Bourgeois� Virtue""; ""Tea, Coffee, and Sugar""; ""Cleanliness""; ""5. Rational Masculinity""; ""Coffeehouses""; ""Coffee and the Context of Rational Masculinity""; ""Tobacco""; ""6. Domestic Femininity""; ""Tea



and Sympathy""; ""Femininity, Domesticity, and “Separate Spheres�""; ""Civilization""

""Domesticity and Consumption""""Breakfast""; ""7. Respectability""; ""Modern Times""; ""Respectability, Social Structure, and Individual Status""; ""Respectable Families""; ""Respectability, Institutions, and Professions""; ""8. Conclusion""; ""Gentility, Luxury, and Virtue""; ""Makers of Respectability""; ""Rational Masculinity and Domestic Femininity""; ""Implications and Further Questions""; ""Notes""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""Archival Sources and Special Collections""; ""Primary Sources""; ""Secondary Sources""

Sommario/riassunto

Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.