1st Edition
Buying for the Home Shopping for the Domestic from the Seventeenth Century to the Present
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
236 Pages
by
Routledge
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Buying for the Home is a book about the experiences and also the polarities of shopping and the home. It analyses the ways in which the agencies and discourses of the retail environment mesh with the processes of physical and imaginative re-creation that constitute the domestic space, teasing out the negotiations and interactions that mediate this key arena. The study examines how the strategies... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction: between the shop and the home, David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby; Part 1 Retail Areas and the 'Everyday': Shopping at 1st hand? Mistresses, servants and shopping for the household in early modern England, Claire Walsh; 'To families furnishing kitchens': domestic utensils and their use in the 18th-century home, Karin Dannehl; Guns, horses and stylish waistcoats? Male consumer activity and domestic shopping in late-18th- and early-19th-century England, David Hussey. Part 2 Shopping for Identities?: Liberty and lifestyle: shopping for art and luxury in 19th-century London, Sonia Ashmore; 'Artistic and commercial' Japan: modernity, authenticity and Japanese leather, Yasuko Suga. Part 3 Fashioning the Domestic: Making and Re-Making the Home through Consumption: Desirable commodity or practical necessity? The sale and consumption of 2nd-hand furniture, 1750-1900, Clive Edwards and Margaret Ponsonby ; 'A pretty custom' updated: from 'going to housekeeping' to bridal showers in the United States, 1850s-1930s, Shirley Teresa Wajda. Part 4 Consumption for the Home as Cultural Practice: The milkman always rang twice: the effects of changed provisioning on Dutch domestic architecture, Irene Cieraad; From Ground Force to garden-making: how ordinary gardeners consume television lifestyle aesthetics, Lisa Taylor; Taking a look at the wild side of diy home décor, Judy Attfield; Index.
Biography
David Hussey and Margaret Ponsonby are both based in the Department of History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
