Furnishing the Eighteenth Century provides an illuminating, interdisciplinary look into European and American furniture during the century that connoisseurs and collectors consider its golden age. Lavishly illustrated, this lively collection of essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars examines the ways furniture of this period reflects the global contacts and social rituals developed in eighteenth-century Europe and America. Drawing on literature, painting, account books and death inventories, this diverse compilation explores how and why eighteenth-century men and women on…mehr
Furnishing the Eighteenth Century provides an illuminating, interdisciplinary look into European and American furniture during the century that connoisseurs and collectors consider its golden age. Lavishly illustrated, this lively collection of essays by historians, art historians, and literary scholars examines the ways furniture of this period reflects the global contacts and social rituals developed in eighteenth-century Europe and America. Drawing on literature, painting, account books and death inventories, this diverse compilation explores how and why eighteenth-century men and women on both sides of the Atlantic purchased and used furniture. Ultimately, these essays make the past come alive, showing us what made desks, tables and chairs deeply meaningful in their own time and historically informative today. Contributors: Donna Bohanan, Natacha Coquery, Madeleine Dobie, Dena Goodman, Mimi Hellman, David Jaffee, Ann Smart Martin, Kathryn Norberg, Chaela Pastore, David Porter, Mary Salzman, Carolyn Sargentson
Dena Goodman is Professor of History and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Republic of Letters: A Cultural History of the French Enlightenment and Becoming a Woman in the Age of Letters, and the editor of Marie-Antoinette: Writings on the Body of a Queen (Routledge). Kathryn Norberg teaches history at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Rich and Poor in Grenoble and the coeditor (with Sara Melzer) of From the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France.
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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg Part 1: Mapping Meaning Globally 1. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Furniture in Eighteenth-Century France Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University 2. Luxury Markets in Saint Domingue: Mahogany as a Case Study Chaela Pastore, California State University, San Marcos 3. "A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place": Hogarth and the Gendering of Exoticism in the Eighteenth-Century Interior David Porter, University of Michigan Part 2: Diffusion 4. Fashion, Business, Diffusion: An Upholsterer's Shop in Eighteenth-Century Paris Translated by Kathryn Norberg & Dena Goodman Natacha Coquery, Université de Tours 5. Sideboards, Side Chairs, and Globes: Changing Modes of Furnishing Provincial Culture in the Early Republic, 1790-1820 David Jaffee, University of North Florida Part 3: Social Meaning and Social Power 6. Color Schemes and Decorative Tastes in the Noble Houses of Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné Donna Bohanon, Auburn University 7. Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison 8. Goddess of Taste: Courtesans and their Furniture in the Late Eighteenth Century Kathryn Norberg 9. Decoration and Enlightened Spectatorship Mary Salzman, Stanford University Part 4: Hidden Meanings: Psychology and Security 10. The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Seriality in the French Interior Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College 11. The Secretaire and the Integration of the Eighteenth-Century Self Dena Goodman 12. Looking at Furniture Inside Out: Strategies for Concealment and Secrecy in Eighteenth-Century French Furniture Carolyn Sargentson, Victoria and Albert Museum Notes on Contributors Index
Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg Part 1: Mapping Meaning Globally 1. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Furniture in Eighteenth-Century France Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University 2. Luxury Markets in Saint Domingue: Mahogany as a Case Study Chaela Pastore, California State University, San Marcos 3. "A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place": Hogarth and the Gendering of Exoticism in the Eighteenth-Century Interior David Porter, University of Michigan Part 2: Diffusion 4. Fashion, Business, Diffusion: An Upholsterer's Shop in Eighteenth-Century Paris Translated by Kathryn Norberg & Dena Goodman Natacha Coquery, Université de Tours 5. Sideboards, Side Chairs, and Globes: Changing Modes of Furnishing Provincial Culture in the Early Republic, 1790-1820 David Jaffee, University of North Florida Part 3: Social Meaning and Social Power 6. Color Schemes and Decorative Tastes in the Noble Houses of Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné Donna Bohanon, Auburn University 7. Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison 8. Goddess of Taste: Courtesans and their Furniture in the Late Eighteenth Century Kathryn Norberg 9. Decoration and Enlightened Spectatorship Mary Salzman, Stanford University Part 4: Hidden Meanings: Psychology and Security 10. The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Seriality in the French Interior Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College 11. The Secretaire and the Integration of the Eighteenth-Century Self Dena Goodman 12. Looking at Furniture Inside Out: Strategies for Concealment and Secrecy in Eighteenth-Century French Furniture Carolyn Sargentson, Victoria and Albert Museum Notes on Contributors Index
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