Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain: A Nation of Makers

Serena Dyer

ISBN 10: 1350282413 / ISBN 13: 9781350282414

Edité par Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2022

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Synopsis :

This ground-breaking book presents a study of the makers who fuelled the revolution in commerce and goods in 18th-century Britain.

À propos des auteurs: Serena Dyer is Lecturer in History of Design & Material Culture at De Montfort University. She has taught at the University of Warwick and the University of Hertfordshire, and was Postdoctoral Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She was previously Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture. She has published on albums, wallpaper, consumer culture, and childhood in the 18th century. Her book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021.

Chloe Wigston Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York. She is the author of Women, Work, and Clothes in the 18th-Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2013), as well as articles on women in literature, material culture studies and fashion culture. Her current British Academy funded project looks at domestic crafts in the Atlantic world.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Material Literacy in 18th-Century Britain: A...
Éditeur : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Date d'édition : 2022
Reliure : Paperback / softback
Etat : New