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A material world : culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America
Title
A material world : culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America / edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta Markle Lovell.
ISBN
9780271081151
0271081155
Publication
University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
x, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Summary
"A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 14, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : culture, society, and the material world / Margaretta Markle Lovell
Picturing Penn : portraits, public memory, and the political culture of late colonial Pennsylvania / George W. Boudreau
Ascending the stair : Charles Wilson Peale's Staircase group, reimagining a grand-manner portrait in federal Philadelphia / Carol Eaton Soltis
Artists' materials and the transatlantic craft traditions of eighteenth-century American portrait painting / Ellen G. Miles
Clock making in southwestern Connecticut, 1760-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Face, place, and power : James Logan, Stenton, and the Anglo-American gentleman's house / Stephen G. Hague
Trophy heads at Monticello / Margaretta Markle Lovell
"Painting" faces and "dressing" tables : concealment in colonial dressing furniture / Jennifer Van Horn
Mommy dearest : Britannica, American, and mother-daughter conflicts in eighteenth-century prints and medals / Nancy Siegel
"The family of Derby has a taste in this way" : the homes of Elias Hasket and Elizabeth Derby, 1762-1799 / Emily A. Murphy
From region to nation : M.F. Cornè's Landing of the pilgrims and the circulation of images in the early republic / Patricia Johnston
Remembering the "olden time" : John Fanning Watson's cultivation of memory and relics in early national Philadelphia / Laura C. Keim.
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