A material world : culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America / edited by George W. Boudreau and Margaretta Markle Lovell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boudreau, George W., editor.

Lovell, Margaretta M., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--United States--History--18th century.

Material culture.

Politics and culture.

History.

Manners and customs.

Civilization.

United States--Civilization--18th century.

United States.

United States--Social life and customs--18th century.

Politics and culture--United States--History--18th century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 331 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2019]

Summary:

"A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : culture, society, and the material world / Margaretta Markle Lovell

Picturing Penn : portraits, public memory, and the political culture of late colonial Pennsylvania / George W. Boudreau

Ascending the stair : Charles Wilson Peale's Staircase group, reimagining a grand-manner portrait in federal Philadelphia / Carol Eaton Soltis

Artists' materials and the transatlantic craft traditions of eighteenth-century American portrait painting / Ellen G. Miles

Clock making in southwestern Connecticut, 1760-1820 / Paul G.E. Clemens and Edward S. Cooke Jr.

Face, place, and power : James Logan, Stenton, and the Anglo-American gentleman's house / Stephen G. Hague

Trophy heads at Monticello / Margaretta Markle Lovell

"Painting" faces and "dressing" tables : concealment in colonial dressing furniture / Jennifer Van Horn

Mommy dearest : Britannica, American, and mother-daughter conflicts in eighteenth-century prints and medals / Nancy Siegel

"The family of Derby has a taste in this way" : the homes of Elias Hasket and Elizabeth Derby, 1762-1799 / Emily A. Murphy

From region to nation : M.F. Cornè's Landing of the pilgrims and the circulation of images in the early republic / Patricia Johnston

Remembering the "olden time" : John Fanning Watson's cultivation of memory and relics in early national Philadelphia / Laura C. Keim.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780271081151

0271081155

OCLC:

1044780588