Consumption Of Culture | Ann Bermingham, John Brewer | Taylor & Franci

ABSTRACT

First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|20 pages

Introduction. The consumption of culture: image, object, text

part |2 pages

Part I The formation of a public for art and literature

chapter 2|19 pages

Subjective powers? Consumption, the reading public, and domestic woman in early eighteenth-century England

chapter 3|12 pages

Reading women. Text and image in eighteenth-century England

chapter 4|21 pages

Colonizing readers. Review criticism and the formation of a reading public

chapter 5|14 pages

Expanding on portraiture. The market, the public, and the hierarchy of genres in eighteenth-century Britain

chapter 6|14 pages

The abandoned hero. The decline of state authority in the direction of French painting as seen in the career of one exemplary theme, 1777-89

chapter 7|16 pages

Gombrich and the rise oflandscape

part |2 pages

Part II Engendering the literary canon

chapter 8|22 pages

British Romanticism, gender, and three women artists

chapter 9|23 pages

The "exchange of letters." Early modern contradictions and postmodern conundrums

chapter 10|27 pages

Author-mongering. The "editor" between producer and consumer

chapter 11|22 pages

Shot from canons; or, Maria Edgeworth and the cultural production and consumption of the eighteenth-century woman writer

part |2 pages

Part III Consumption and the modern state

chapter 12|20 pages

Polygamy, Pamela, and the prerogative of empire

chapter 13|122 pages

The good, the bad, and the impotent. Imperialism and the politics of identity in Georgian England

chapter 14|9 pages

The state's demand for accurate astronomical and navigational instruments in eighteenth-century Britain

chapter 15|22 pages

Signs and citizens. Sign language and visual sign in the French Revolution

chapter 16|25 pages

Outrages. Sculpture and kingship in France after 1789

chapter 17|20 pages

Dante's Restaurant. The cultural work of experiment in early modern Tuscany

part |2 pages

Part IV The social order: culture high and low

chapter 18|21 pages

"The most polite age and the most vicious." Attitudes towards culture as a commodity, 1660-1800

chapter 19|21 pages

Politeness for plebes. Consumption and social identity in early eighteenth- century England

chapter 20|18 pages

Emulative consumption and literacy. The Harlot, Moll Flanders, and Mrs. Slipslop

chapter 21|16 pages

"La chose publique." Hubert Robert's decorations for the "petit salon" at Mereville

part |2 pages

Part V What women want

chapter 22|21 pages

"News from the New Exchange". Commodity, erotic fantasy, and the female entrepreneur

chapter 23|15 pages

Women's participation in the urban culture of early modern London. Images from fiction

chapter 24|34 pages

The im/modesty of her sex. Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun and the Salon of 1783

chapter 25|25 pages

Elegant females and gentlemen connoisseurs. The commerce in culture and self-image in eighteenth-century England

chapter 26|21 pages

Social order and the domestic consumption of music. The politics of sound in the policing of gender construction in eighteenth-century England