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Small Things in the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 345
Authors: Chloe Wigston Smith
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-29 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Offering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled w
The Art of Small Things
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: John Mack
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This richly illustrated book celebrates the art of the miniature, but also looks beyond it at the many aspects of "small worlds"--in particular, their capacity
The Secret Life of Things
Language: en
Pages: 378
Authors: Mark Blackwell
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Bucknell University Press

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This collection enriches and complicates the history of prose fiction between Richardson and Fielding at mid-century and Austen at the turn of the century by fo
In Small Things Forgotten
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: James Deetz
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-07 - Publisher: Anchor

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History is recorded in many ways. According to author James Deetz, the past can be seen most fully by studying the small things so often forgotten. Objects such
Reading and the Making of Time in the Eighteenth Century
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Christina Lupton
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-08-15 - Publisher: JHU Press

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How did eighteenth-century readers find and make time to read? Books have always posed a problem of time for readers. Becoming widely available in the eighteent