An edition of The afterlife of used things (2014)

The afterlife of used things

recycling in the long eighteenth century

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An edition of The afterlife of used things (2014)

The afterlife of used things

recycling in the long eighteenth century

by , , and

"Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. 'The environment' may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans"--

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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
Language
English
Pages
277

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Recycling (Waste, etc.) History Material culture Secondhand trade Social history Economic history Literature History and criticism HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century HISTORY / Social History BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History Salvage (waste, etc.) Preservation of materials Modern Literature Modern 18th Century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

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18th century 1600-1750 1750-1918
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Afterlife of Used Things
2019, Taylor & Francis Group
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The afterlife of used things: recycling in the long eighteenth century
2014, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, Routledge
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Afterlife of Used Things
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Cover of: Afterlife of Used Things
Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Afterlife of Used Things
Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
in English
Cover of: Afterlife of Used Things
Afterlife of Used Things: Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century
2014, Taylor & Francis Group
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Many Lives of Recycling / Ariane Fennetaux, Amélie Junqua and Sophie Vasset
Part I. The Circulation of Goods
The Social Circulation of Luxury and Second-Hand Goods in Eighteenth-Century Parisian Shops / Natacha Coquery
Luxury and Country House Sales in England, c.1760-1830 / Jon Stobart
Recycling the Wreckage of History : On the Rise of an "Antiquarian Consumer Culture" in the Southern Netherlands / Ilja Van Damme
Recycling Orientalia : William Beckford's Æsthetics of Appropriation / Laurent Châtel
Part II. The Stewardship of Objects and the Material Practices of Recycling
Recycling the City : Paris, 1760s-1800 / Allan Potofsky
Renewing and Refashioning : Recycling Furniture at the Late Stuart Court (1689-1714) / Olivia Fryman
Invisible Mending? : Ceramic Repair in Eighteenth-Century England / Sara Pennell
Sentimental Economics : Recycling Textiles in Eighteenth-Century Britain / Ariane Fennetaux
Science and Recycling in the Long Eighteenth Century / Simon Werrett
Recycling the Sacred : The Wax Votive Object and the Eighteenth-Century Wax Baby Doll / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace
Part III. Textual Recyclings
Inventive Mendicancy, Thrift and Extravagance Manifested in Re-Circulated Material in an Eighteenth-Century Library / W.G. Day
Unstable Shades of Grey : Cloth and Paper in Addison's Periodicals / Amélie Junqua
Black Transactions : Waste and Abundance in Samuel Richardson's Clarissa / Rebecca Barr
"Never Was a Thing Put to So Many Uses" : Transfer and Transformation in Laurence Sterne's Fiction (1759-1768) / Brigitte Friant-Kessler
Recycling a Medical Case : The Walpoles' Stone and Gravel / Sophie Vasset.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.

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New York
Series
Routledge studies in cultural history -- 26

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.72/8209033
Library of Congress
TD794.5 .A415 2014, HD9975, TD794.5 .A415 2015

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 277 pages
Number of pages
277

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL31025722M
ISBN 13
9780415726306
LCCN
2014019501
OCLC/WorldCat
1053499283, 896182318

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL23191700W

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