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early modern consumption
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Eighteenth Century Medical Writings
Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue
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Frans Francken
Great Wardrobe
Hall Sale
historical resource scarcity
history of object reuse in Europe
Jean Meuvret
journey
kensington
Kirby Hall
Knowledge Acquisition
literary materiality
long
material culture studies
Mr Spectator
netherlands
recycling
Regimental Coat
Royal Furniture
secondhand goods trade
sentimental
southern
Southern Netherlands
Spanish Nut
Sterne's Fiction
Sterne’s Fiction
Steward Ship
textile
Textile Recycling
Walpole's Case
Walpole’s Case
Wax Doll
Wax Fi Gure
Wax Objects
West Dean College
William III
Young Men

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415726306
  • Weight: 700g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Oct 2014
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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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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Ariane Fennetaux is Senior Lecturer in 18th-Century Studies at Université Paris Diderot. Amélie Junqua is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Amiens. Sophie Vasset is a Senior Lecturer at Université Paris Diderot.