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Consumption and the Country House (Hardcover)
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Consumption and the Country House (Hardcover)
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This study explores the consumption practices of the landed
aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and
drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills,
household inventories, diaries and correspondence, Consumption and
the Country House charts the spending patterns of this elite group
during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century.
Generally examined through the lens of middling families, homes and
motivations, this book explores the ways in which the aristocracy
were engaged in this wider transformation of English society.
Analysis centres on the goods that the aristocracy purchased, both
luxurious and mundane; the extent to which they pursued fashionable
modes and goods; the role that family and friends played in shaping
notions of taste; the influence of gender on taste and refinement;
the geographical reach of provisioning and the networks that lay
behind this consumer activity, and the way this all contributed to
the construction of the country house. The country house thus
emerges as much more than a repository of luxury and splendour; it
lay at the heart of complex networks of exchange, sociability,
demand, and supply. Exploring these processes and relationships
serves to reanimate the country house, making it an active site of
consumption rather than simply an expression of power and taste,
and drawing it into the mainstream of consumption histories. At the
same time, the landed aristocracy are shown to be rounded
consumers, driven by values of thrift and restraint as much as
extravagant desires, and valuing the old as well as the new, not
least as markers of their pedigree and heritance.
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