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The Laboring-Class Domestic Sphere in Eighteenth-Century British Social Thought
​Jonathan White​
Description: Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
Gender, Taste, and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700–1830
THIS ESSAY TRACES the emergence and development of ideas about laboring-class domestic spheres in eighteenth-century England. Examining published pamphlet literature across the eighteenth century, I show how the laboring-class home and its familial relations came into public view and became an object of knowledge for propertied Englishmen. This was largely due to the rise of a new...
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​Jonathan White​
PublisherYale Center for British Art
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2006 by Yale University
Related print edition pages: pp.247-260
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00205.011
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-20185
Chapter subject tags:Working class--England--18th centuryWomen and gender--Britain--18th centuryConsumer (Economics)--England--18th centuryDefoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731Household furnishings--Britain--18th centuryMaterial culture--Great Britain--18th centuryEngland--Social life and customs--18th century