Men, women and the supply of luxury goods in eighteenth century England : the purchasing patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh

Rothery, M. and Stobart, J. (2015) Men, women and the supply of luxury goods in eighteenth century England : the purchasing patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh. In: Simonton, D., Kaartinen, M. and Montenach, A. (eds.) Luxury & Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 :. London: Routledge. pp. 97-115.

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Abstract:	This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles.
Creators:	Rothery, Mark and Stobart, Jon
Editors:	Simonton, Deborah, Kaartinen, Marjo and Montenach, Anne
Publisher:	Routledge
Faculties, Divisions and Institutes:	Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > History
Date:	1 January 2015
Date Type:	Publication
Page Range:	pp. 97-115
Title of Book:	Luxury & Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914 :
Series Name:	Routledge studies in cultural history
Volume:	32
Place of Publication:	London
Number of Pages:	275
Language:	English
ISBN:	9781138803169
Status:	Published / Disseminated
Refereed:	Yes
Related URLs:	https://www.routledge.com/Luxury-and-Gen... https://pure.northampton.ac.uk/en/public...
URI:	http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/11669

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