1st Edition
Consumption and the Making of Respectability, 1600-1800
By Woodruff Smith
Copyright 2002
352 Pages
by
Routledge
344 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
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Routledge
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Tying together of several distinct cultural patterns during this century to create a culture of respectability and its impact on popular culture, trade, politics, social dynamics, and literature, this original and thoughtful work provides a comprehensive and much-needed understanding of the origins of modern consumption and all of its cultural implications.
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
CH APTER ONE: CONSUMPTION AND CULTURE
Changes in Consumption Patterns in Early Modern Europe
Culture and the Contexts of Consumption
Cultural Contexts
Components of Cultural Contexts
Meaning in Cultural Contexts
Changes in Cultural Contexts
CHAPTER TWO: GENTILITY
Samuel Pepys, Gentleman
Modes of Gentility
Silks and Calicos
Underclothing
CHAPTER THREE: LUXURY
The Context of Luxury in Early Modern Europe
Taste
Comfort and Convenience
Spices of Life
Sugar
The Contexts of Condiment Consumption
CHAPTER FOUR: VIRTUE
Dr. Blankaart's Prescription for Healthy Living
The Discourse of Virtue
Bourgeois Virtue
Tea, Coffee and Sugar
Cleanliness
CHAPTER FIVE: RATIONAL MASCULINITY
Coffeehouses
Coffee and the Context of Rational Masculinity
Tobacco
CHAPTER SIX: DOMESTIC FEMININITY
Tea and Sympathy
Femininity, Domesticity and Separate Spheres
Civilization
Domesticity and Consumption
Breakfast
CHAPTER SEVEN: RESPECTABILITY
Modern Times
Respectability, Social Structure and Individual Status
Respectable Families
Respectability, Institutions and Professions
CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION
Gentility, Luxury and Virtue
Makers of Respectability
Rational Masculinity and Domestic Femininity
Implications and Further Questions
Tables
Bibliography
Abbreviations
Introduction
CH APTER ONE: CONSUMPTION AND CULTURE
Changes in Consumption Patterns in Early Modern Europe
Culture and the Contexts of Consumption
Cultural Contexts
Components of Cultural Contexts
Meaning in Cultural Contexts
Changes in Cultural Contexts
CHAPTER TWO: GENTILITY
Samuel Pepys, Gentleman
Modes of Gentility
Silks and Calicos
Underclothing
CHAPTER THREE: LUXURY
The Context of Luxury in Early Modern Europe
Taste
Comfort and Convenience
Spices of Life
Sugar
The Contexts of Condiment Consumption
CHAPTER FOUR: VIRTUE
Dr. Blankaart's Prescription for Healthy Living
The Discourse of Virtue
Bourgeois Virtue
Tea, Coffee and Sugar
Cleanliness
CHAPTER FIVE: RATIONAL MASCULINITY
Coffeehouses
Coffee and the Context of Rational Masculinity
Tobacco
CHAPTER SIX: DOMESTIC FEMININITY
Tea and Sympathy
Femininity, Domesticity and Separate Spheres
Civilization
Domesticity and Consumption
Breakfast
CHAPTER SEVEN: RESPECTABILITY
Modern Times
Respectability, Social Structure and Individual Status
Respectable Families
Respectability, Institutions and Professions
CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION
Gentility, Luxury and Virtue
Makers of Respectability
Rational Masculinity and Domestic Femininity
Implications and Further Questions
Tables
Bibliography
Biography
Woodruff Smith is Professor in the department of History at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Politics and the Sciences of Culture in Germany, 1840-1920 , The Ideological Origins of Nazi Imperialism , and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries .
"...Facinating research on european bourgeois culture." - Chiara d'Auria, The Journal of European Economic History
