9781472456311

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The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950

Introduction : material culture and the gendered subject / Jennifer G. Germann and Heidi A. Strobel

Men and hunting guns in eighteenth-century France / Amy Freund

Taste à-la-mode : consuming foreignness, picturing gender / Freya Gowrley

Gendered souvenirs : Anna Amalia's grand tourist vedute fans / Christina K. Lindeman

Majas, mantillas, and marcialidad : fashioning identity in late eighteenth-century Spain / Tara Zanardi

Place and possession : Emma Hamilton at Merton, 1801-5 / Amber Ludwig

A gentleman's pursuit : eighteenth-century chinoiserie silver in Britain / Elizabeth A. Williams

Sexing sovereignty : the material culture and sexual politics of Queen Marie Leszcinska's bed / Jennifer G. Germann

'Idleness never grew in my soil' : Mary Delany's flower collages, gender, and the moral authority of 'nature' in eighteenth-century England / Felicity Roberts

Pocket museums : the display of art in women's almanacs during the first French Empire / Ryan Whyte

Stitching the stage : Mary Linwood, Thomas Gainsborough, and the art of installation embroidery / Heidi A. Strobel.

Art and society > Europe > History > 18th century.

Material culture > Europe > History > 18th century.

Sex role > Europe > History > 18th century.