Craciun, Adriana
The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences
1. Introduction
Adriana Craciun, Simon Schaffer
Part I. Natural Curiosities
2. Handling Objects in Natural History Collections
Mary Terrall
3. Curious Work
Mary M. Brooks
4. The Lives of Mrs Delany’s Paper Plants
Kim Sloan
5. A Pathological Pot
Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
6. The Seeds of Disaster: Relics of La Pérouse
Adriana Craciun
Part II. Tools and Travels
7. A Bird in the Hand, or, Manufacturing Credibility in the Instruments of Enlightenment Science
Richard Dunn
8. Mapping New Spaces
Patricia Seed
9. By Hand or By Engine
Richard Dunn
10. The Ship as Object: The Launch of the
James Davey
11. The
Sophie Waring
12. The Navy’s New Clothes
Amy Miller
13. Unwrapping Gods: Illuminating Encounters with Gods, Comets and Missionaries
Maia Nuku
Part III. Artificial Curiosities
14. Persons and Things
Jonathan Lamb
15. The Fabric of Domestic Life: Rethinking the Humble Painted Cloth
Tara Hamling
16. The Willdey Telescope: Instrument for Fashion, Learning and Amusement
Alexi Baker
17. Cataloguing Curiosities: Whitby’s Barkcloth Book
Billie Lythberg
18. Art and Things: Fragonard’s Colour Box
Hannah Williams
19. Keep Within Compass
Katy Barrett
20. Perfected Thing: A Lay Figure by Paul Huot
Jane Munro
Part IV. Exotic Goods
21. A Home Away from Home: Sophie Magdalene’s Clockwork Chinoiserie
Josefine Baark
22. The Chinese Tallow Tree: From Asset in Asia to Curse in Carolina
Charles Jarvis
23. Global Connections: Punch, Porcelain and Maritime Material Culture
John McAleer
24. A Damaged and Discarded Thing
Anne Gerritsen
25. Sarah Sophia Banks, Adam Afzelius and a Coin from Sierra Leone
Catherine Eagleton
26. A Pacific Macrocosm: ‘Les Sauvages de la mer Pacifique’
Billie Lythberg
27. ‘Columen Vitae’: Pharmaceutical Packaging, 1750–1850
Jennifer Basford
28. Tropical Lifestyles, Luxury, and the Health of Britain’s Global Power, 1793–1825
Jonathan Eacott
Part V. Worlds on Paper
29. Extra-illustrations: The Order of the Book and the Fantasia of the Library
Luisa Calè
30. Paperslips
Leanna McLaughlin
31. Advertising and Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century
Philippa Hubbard
32. Kitty Fisher: The Commodification of Celebrity
Faramerz Dabhoiwala
33. An Admirable Typology
Billie Lythberg, Maia Nuku, Amiria Salmond
34. Connoisseurship and the Communication of Anatomical Knowledge: The Case of William Cheselden’s
Alexander Wragge-Morley
Keywords: Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Literary History, History of the Book, European Literature
- Editor
- Craciun, Adriana
- Schaffer, Simon
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2016
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print
- Page amount
- 16 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137443793
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-44579-7