Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context

Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. In highlighting trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors celebrate the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.

Autorentext
Ileana Baird is a Postdoctoral Preceptorship Fellow at the University of Virginia, USA. Christina Ionescu is an Associate Professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, Canada.

Inhalt
Introduction: Peregrine Things: Rethinking the Global in Eighteenth-Century Studies
Ileana Baird
Introduction: Through the Prism of Thing Theory: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century World of Objects
Christina Ionescu
Part I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques
1 Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse
Christine A. Jones
2 Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity
Kevin Bourque
3 Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook's Voyages and the Objects of the Museum
Sophie Thomas
4 Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Kevin M. McGeough
Part II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books
5 Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode
Victoria Ivleva
6 From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals
Pamela Buck
7 "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl
Rimma Garn
Part III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps
8 From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal
Mauricio E. Martinez
9 Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century
Krystal McMillen
10 The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe
Irene Fizer
11 Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space
Lauren Beck
Part IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects
12 (Re-)Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box
Laure Marcellesi
13 Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbé Prévost's Histoire Générale des Voyages
Antoine Eche
14 Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Jessica Durgan

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