Afterlife of Used Things - Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century

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Introduction: The Many Lives of Recycling Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua and Sophie Vasset Part I: The Circulation of Goods 1. The Social Circulation of Luxury and Second-Hand Goods in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Shops Natacha Coquery 2. Luxury and Country House Sales in England, c.1760-1830 Jon Stobart 3. Recycling the Wreckage of History: On the Rise of an "Antiquarian Consumer Culture" in the Southern Netherlands Ilja Van Damme 4. Recycling Orientalia: William Beckford's Æsthetics of Appropriation Laurent Châtel Part II: The Stewardship of Objects and the Material Practices of Recycling 5. Recycling the City: Paris, 1760s-1800 Allan Potofsky 6. Renewing and Refashioning: Recycling Furniture at the Late Stuart Court (1689-1714) Olivia Fryman 7. Invisible Mending?: Ceramic Repair in Eighteenth-Century England Sara Pennell 8. Sentimental Economics: Recycling Textiles in Eighteenth-Century Britain Ariane Fennetaux 9. Science and Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century Simon Werrett 10. Recycling the Sacred: The Wax Votive Object and the Eighteenth-Century Wax Baby Doll Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace Part III: Textual Recyclings 11. Inventive Mendicancy, Thrift and Extravagance Manifested in Re-Circulated Material in an Eighteenth-Century Library W. G. Day 12. Unstable Shades of Grey: Cloth and Paper in Addison’s Periodicals Amélie Junqua 13. Black Transactions: Waste and Abundance in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa. Rebecca Barr 14. "Never Was a Thing Put to So Many Uses": Transfer and Transformation in Laurence Sterne’s Fiction (1759-1768) Brigitte Friant-Kessler 15. Recycling a Medical Case: The Walpoles’ Stone and Gravel Sophie Vasset

Product details

• Authors: Ariane Junqua Fennetaux
• Assisted by: Ariane Fennetaux (Editor), Fennetaux Ariane (Editor), Amélie Junqua (Editor), Sophie Vasset (Editor), Vasset Sophie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2014
• EAN: 9780415726306
• ISBN: 978-0-415-72630-6
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; European History, HISTORY / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Social and cultural history, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards