Luxury and Gender in European Towns, 1700-1914.

Other author Simonton, Deborah, 1948- editor.
Other author Kaartinen, Marjo, 1964- editor.
Other author Montenach, Anne.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge, 2014.
Description1 online resource (296 pages)
Supplemental ContentEBSCOhost
Subjects
Luxury--Social aspects. --Europe. --History. --18th century.
Luxury--Social aspects. --Europe. --History. --19th century.
City and town life--Europe. --History.
Sex role--Europe. --History.
Social classes--Europe. --History.
Luxury goods industry--Europe. --History.
Europe--Economic conditions. --18th century.
Europe--Economic conditions. --1789-1900.
Europe--Social conditions. --18th century.
Europe--Social conditions. --1789-1900.

SeriesRoutledge Studies in Cultural History
Routledge studies in cultural history. ^A517008
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience; PART I Markets and Opportunities; 2 Milliners and Marchandes de Modes: Gender, Creativity and Skill in the Workplace; 3 Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble: From Legal Exchanges to Shadow Economy; 4 Women in the Late Eighteenth-Century-Copenhagen Luxury Trades; 5 Feminisation and the Luxury of Visual Art in London's West End, 1860-1890; PART II Metropole and Province
Contents 6 Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in Eighteenth-Century England: The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh7 The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris; 8 Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Catalonia: Town and Countryside; 9 Gender, Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions c. 1880-1910; PART III Class and Status; 10 A Feminine Luxury in Paris: Marie-Fortunée d'Este, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803); 11 Favourites of Fortune: The Luxury Consumption of the Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825
Contents 12 The 'Díszmagyar' as Representation in the Andrássy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest13 The Luxury They Could Not Afford? Households of Workers in the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900; Afterword: Gender, Luxury and Towns Revisited; Contributors; Guide to Further Reading; Index
Abstract This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in.
General noteDescription based upon print version of record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
ISBN9781317611363 electronic bk.
ISBN1317611365 electronic bk.