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Zusatztext 'Readers interested in thing theory and students of material culture as discussed especially in literature will appreciate this book's efforts. Historical geographers can gain much from the interdisciplinary collaboration exhibited in this volume. Overall! the collection does highlight how humans relate to objects and convincingly displays how understanding such relationships can deepen our understanding of some aspects of the eighteenth-century world.' Journal of Historical Geography Informationen zum Autor Ileana Baird is a Postdoctoral Preceptorship Fellow at the University of Virginia, USA. Christina Ionescu is an Associate Professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, Canada. Klappentext Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. In highlighting trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors celebrate the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale. Zusammenfassung Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects! this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends! fashions! and cultural imports of truly global significance! the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe! Russia! Africa! Latin America! and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches! such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies! revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area! or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint! this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations! celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century StudiesIleana BairdIntroduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of ObjectsChristina IonescuPart I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse TrembleuseChristine A. Jones2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century CelebrityKevin Bourque3 Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook's Voyages and the Objects of the MuseumSophie Thomas4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century EuropeKevin M. McGeoughPart II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La ModeVictoria Ivleva6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot's The Russian JournalsPamela Buck7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern BrawlRimma GarnPart III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone's ChrysalMauricio E. Martinez9 Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth CenturyKrystal McMillen10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson CrusoeIrene Fizer11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodifica...
