This book conceives the role of the modern town as a crucial place for material and cultural circulations of luxury. It concentrates on a critical period of historical change, the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, that was marked by the passage from a society of scarcity to one of expenditure and accumulation, from ranks and orders to greater social mobility, from traditional aristocratic luxury to a new bourgeois and even democratic form of luxury. This volume recognizes the notion that luxury operated as a mechanism of social separation, but also that all classes aspired to engage in consumption at some level, thus extending the idea of what constituted luxury and blurring the boundaries of class and status, often in unsettling ways. It moves beyond the moral aspects of luxury and the luxury debates to analyze how the production, distribution, purchase or display of luxury goods could participate in the creation of autonomous selves and thus challenge gender roles.
1. Luxury, Gender and the Urban Experience Marjo Kaartinen, Anne
Montenach and Deborah Simonton Part I: Markets and Opportunities
2. Milliners
and Marchandes de Modes: Gender, Luxury and Skill in the Workplace Deborah
Simonton
3. Gender and Luxury in Eighteenth-Century Grenoble: From Legal
Exchanges to Shadow Economy Anne Montenach
4. Women in Luxury Trades in
Eighteenth-Century Copenhagen Carol Gold
5. Feminisation and the Luxury of
Visual Art in Londons West End, 1860-1890 Kemille Moore Part II: Metropole
and Province
6. Men, Women and the Supply of Luxury Goods in
Eighteenth-Century England: The Purchasing Patterns of Edward and Mary Leigh
Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery
7. The Luxury Shopping Experience of the Swedish
Aristocracy in Eighteenth-Century Paris Johanna Ilmakunnas
8. Gender, Luxury
and Fashion in Eighteenth-Century Barcelona Belen Moreno Claverķas
9. Gender,
Craftwork and the Exotic in International Exhibitions c. 1880-1910 Stana
Nenadic Part III: Class and Status
10. A Feminine Luxury in Paris:
Marie-Fortunée dEste, Princesse de Conti (1731-1803) Aurélie
Chatenet-Calyste
11. Favourites of Fortune: The Luxury Consumption of the
Hackmans of Vyborg, 1790-1825 Ulla Ijäs
12. The "Dķszmagyar" as
Representation in the Andrįssy Family in Late Nineteenth-Century Budapest
Zsuzsa Sidó
13. The Luxury They Could Not Afford?: Households of Workers in
the Industrial Town of Drammen, Norway c. 1900 Hanne Marie Johansen Afterword
Anne Montenach, Marjo Kaartinen and Deborah Simonton
Deborah Simonton is an associate professor of British History at the University of Southern Denmark, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a visiting professor at the University of Turku, Finland.
Marjo Kaartinen is a professor of cultural history at the University of Turku and the director of the Turku Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies.
Anne Montenach is an associate professor of early modern history at Aix-Marseille University, CNRS, UMR 7303 TELEMME (13094 Aix-en-Provence, France).
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