Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature
Edited by Chloe Wigston Smith , Beth Fowkes Tobin
ISBN 10: 1108834450 ISBN 13: 9781108834452
Published by Cambridge University Press, 2022
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Synopsis:
Playful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.
About the Authors:
Chloe Wigston Smith is the author of Women, Work, and Clothes in the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2013) and co-editor, with Serena Dyer, of Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers (2020). Her current research, supported by a British Academy fellowship, centers on material culture and the Atlantic world.
Beth Fowkes Tobin, a recipient of NEH and NSF fellowships, is the author of The Duchess's Shells: Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook's Voyages (2014), Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760–1830 (2005), and Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (1999).
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Title: Small Things in the Eighteenth Century: The ...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2022
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Brand New