Description
Product ID: | 9780415424561 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Spaces of Consumption |
Subtitle: | Leisure and Shopping in the English Town, c.1680–1830 |
Authors: | Author: Andrew Hann, Victoria Morgan, Jon Stobart |
Page Count: | 256 |
Subjects: | European history, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, Human geography, Social & cultural history, Human geography |
Description: | Select Guide Rating This inspiring new study is based on the established key theme of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related through the shop, the theatre and the street. Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century. |
Imprint Name: | Routledge |
Publisher Name: | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-06-21 |