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John Styles (Editor), Amanda Vickery (Editor)
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
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John Styles (Editor), Amanda Vickery (Editor)
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
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Linzy Brekke is an Assistant Professor of History at Stonehill College in Massachusetts. Her work focuses on fashion and consumer culture in the early American republic.
Hannah Greig is a Junior Research Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford, and was previously a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior. She recently wrote “Eighteenth-Century English Interiors in Image and Text,” in Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance, ed. J. Aynsley and C. Grant (2006), and is completing a book on eighteenth-century elite identities based on her 2003 University of London doctoral dissertation, “The Beau Monde and Fashionable Life in Eighteenth-Century London, 1688–1800.”
Ellen Hartigan-O’Connor is an Assistant Professor of History at San Jose State University. She is currently completing a book on women’s economic networks in Revolutionary-era American port cities.
Amy H. Henderson is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Delaware. Her dissertation, “Furnishing the Republican Court: Building and Decorating Philadelphia Homes, 1790–1800,” explores the material worlds of early American elites.
Bernard L. Herman is the Edward and Elizabeth Goodman Rosenberg Professor of Art History at the University of Delaware, where he also serves on the faculty of the Center for Material Culture Studies, the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and the Center for Historic Architecture and Design. He is the author of numerous books, including The Stolen House (1992), Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (with Gabrielle M. Lanier, 1997), and Town House: Architecture and Material Life in the Early American City, 1780–1830 (2005). He is currently working on a book on the first-period buildings (c. 1680–1740) of the Delaware Valley and Philadelphia region.
Karen Lipsedge is a Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies and English Literature at Kingston University. Her research focuses on the representation of the domestic interior in eighteenth-century British novels, and she recently wrote “Representations of the Domestic Parlour in Samuel Richardson’s Clarissa,” in Eighteenth-Century Fiction 17, no. 3 (2005).
Ann Smart Martin is Chipstone Professor of American Decorative Arts at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she administers the interdisciplinary Certificate in Material Culture. She is the author of Buying into the World of Goods: Early Consumers in the Virginia Backcountry (2006).
Kate Retford is a Lecturer in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Art History in the School of History of Art, Film, and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written a number of articles on eighteenth-century English portraiture and has just published The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England (2006).
Robert Blair St. George is a Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A past Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, he has published The Wrought Covenant (1979), Material Life in America (1988), Conversing by Signs (1998), and Possible Pasts (2000).
John Styles is Research Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire and was an Associate Director of the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior from 2001 to 2004. He coauthored Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500 to 1900 (2001) and is completing a book about the clothes worn by ordinary people in eighteenth-century England.
Amanda Vickery is Reader in the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway, University of London, and was an Associate Director of the AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior from 2001 to 2006. Her first book, The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England (1998), won the Whitfield, Wolfson, and Longman–History Today prizes. She is now writing a study of gender and the domestic interior in eighteenth-century England.
Claire Walsh is an Associate Lecturer for the Open University in the East of England Region. She has written extensively on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century shops and shopping, including “Social Meaning and Social Space in the Shopping Galleries of Early-Modern London,” in A Nation of Shopkeepers: A History of Retailing in Britain, 1550–2000, ed. John Benson and Laura Ugolini (2003). She is completing a monograph on shops and shopping in early-modern England, c. 1660–1800.
Jonathan White completed a PhD dissertation, “Luxury and Labour: Ideas of Labouring-Class Consumption in Eighteenth-Century England,” at the University of Warwick in 2001. It is being rewritten as a book with the provisional title The Fruits of Industry: Capitalist Ideology and the Labouring Classes. He now works for the University and College Union, the higher-education trade union in Britain.
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