{"product_id":"eighteenthcentury-thing-theory-in-a-global-context-9781472413291","title":"EighteenthCentury Thing Theory in a Global","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring 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 th\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies\u003cbr\u003eIleana Baird\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects\u003cbr\u003eChristina Ionescu\u003cbr\u003ePart I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques\u003cbr\u003e1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse\u003cbr\u003eChristine A. Jones\u003cbr\u003e2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity\u003cbr\u003eKevin Bourque\u003cbr\u003e3 Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook’s Voyages and the Objects of the Museum\u003cbr\u003eSophie Thomas\u003cbr\u003e4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe\u003cbr\u003eKevin M. McGeough\u003cbr\u003ePart II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books\u003cbr\u003e5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode\u003cbr\u003eVictoria Ivleva\u003cbr\u003e6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot’s The Russian Journals\u003cbr\u003ePamela Buck\u003cbr\u003e7 “The Battle of the Books” in Catherine the Great’s Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl\u003cbr\u003eRimma Garn\u003cbr\u003ePart III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps\u003cbr\u003e8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone’s Chrysal\u003cbr\u003eMauricio E. Martinez\u003cbr\u003e9 Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century\u003cbr\u003eKrystal McMillen\u003cbr\u003e10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe\u003cbr\u003eIrene Fizer\u003cbr\u003e11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space\u003cbr\u003eLauren Beck\u003cbr\u003ePart IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects\u003cbr\u003e12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box\u003cbr\u003eLaure Marcellesi\u003cbr\u003e13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbé Prévost’s Histoire Générale des Voyages\u003cbr\u003eAntoine Eche\u003cbr\u003e14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels\u003cbr\u003eJessica Durgan\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408742555991,"sku":"9781472413291","price":137.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/eighteenthcentury-thing-theory-in-a-global-context-9781472413291","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}