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This quantity explores the political, financial, ethical, and highbrow results of the creation and intake of luxurious items within the 18th century. The background of luxurious hyperlinks diversified themes of enquiry corresponding to fabric tradition, flavor, civility and sensibility, literature, and artwork. The textual content presents a broadly-based account from numerous views, addressing key issues of monetary debate, fabric tradition, the foundations of paintings and style, luxurious as ''female vice,'' and the unique.

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57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. , Early Modern Conceptions of Property (London, 1995), pp. 301–19, p. 304. Vincent Quinn and Mary Peace, eds, Luxurious Sexualities, Textual Practice 11 (3), 1997, 405–16. Sekora, Luxury, pp. 1–2. , p. 32. See Jonathan White, ‘Representations of the Consumption of the Labouring Poor in Eighteenth-Century England’, PhD Dissertation, University of Warwick, 2001. Also see John Styles, ‘Custom or Consumption’, this volume. Sekora, Luxury, p. 12. See Barbara Hardy, The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray (London, 1972), pp.

In women’s dress we can discern two distinct moral economies, he claimed: one represented by Paris where women adopt fashions to conceal those faults the fashion industries themselves define, the other by rustic communities like that of Clarens in La Nouvelle Héloïse, where, by contrast, the rejection of superfluities secures material abundance, and dress conforms to need alone. Rousseau longed for, but certainly did not expect, a transparent social order in which persons would wear clothing appropriate to their ages and stations.

65. 66. , Early Modern Conceptions of Property (London, 1995), pp. 301–19, p. 304. Vincent Quinn and Mary Peace, eds, Luxurious Sexualities, Textual Practice 11 (3), 1997, 405–16. Sekora, Luxury, pp. 1–2. , p. 32. See Jonathan White, ‘Representations of the Consumption of the Labouring Poor in Eighteenth-Century England’, PhD Dissertation, University of Warwick, 2001. Also see John Styles, ‘Custom or Consumption’, this volume. Sekora, Luxury, p. 12. See Barbara Hardy, The Exposure of Luxury: Radical Themes in Thackeray (London, 1972), pp.

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