{"product_id":"small-things-in-the-eighteenth-century-the-political-and-personal-value-of-the-miniature-hardback-9781108834452","title":"Small Things in the Eighteenth Century; The Political and Personal Value of the Miniature (Hardback) 9781108834452","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSmall Things in the Eighteenth Century\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eThe Political and Personal Value of the Miniature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePlayful, useful, decorative, revolutionary: small things possess a rich array of meanings, from the ordinary to the extraordinary.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChloe Wigston Smith (Edited by), Beth Fowkes Tobin (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108834452, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 September 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e25 x 17.7 x 2.5 cm, 0.77 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSmall Things in the Eighteenth Century makes an important contribution to cultural history by focusing its readers on the myriad little details that comprised the period's material world. Gewgaws and luxuries as small as a wampum bead, ant, or punctuation mark, as common as a button or as rare as a medal, as complete as a miniature portrait or as fragmented as a glass shard—minute items that could be seen, held, treasured, lost, and traded become a means of measuring crucial developments at home and around the globe. The interdisciplinary expertise of the contributors provides a lively diversity of perspectives on the practical and symbolic meanings of each small thing. Melinda Rabb, Brown University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eOffering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delight and entertain, generating tactile pleasures for users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptness or the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From the decorative and playful to the useful and performative, such small things as tea caddies, wampum beads, and drawings of ants negotiated larger political, cultural, and scientific shifts as they transported aesthetic and cultural practices across borders, via nationalist imagery, gift exchange, and the movement of global goods.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: The Scale and Sense of Small Things Chloe Wigston Smith and Beth Fowkes Tobin\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Reading Small Things: 1. “The sum of All in All”: The miniature book and the nature of legibility Abigail Williams\u003cbr\u003e 2. Nuts, flies, thimbles, and thumbs: Eighteenth-century children's literature and scale Katherine Wakely-Mulroney\u003cbr\u003e 3. Gothic syntax Cynthia Wall\u003cbr\u003e 4. Small, familiar things on trial and on stage Chloe Wigston Smith\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Small Things in Time and Space: 5. On the smallness of numismatic objects Crystal B. Lake\u003cbr\u003e 6. Crinoidal limestone and Staffordshire teapots: Material and temporal scales in eighteenth-century Britain Kate Smith\u003cbr\u003e 7. “Joineriana”: The small fragments and parts of eighteenth-century assemblages Freya Gowrley\u003cbr\u003e 8. “Pray what a pox are those damned strings of Wampum?”: British understandings of Wampum in the eighteenth century Robbie Richardson\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Small Things at Hand: 9. “We bought a guillotine neatly done in bone”: Illicit industries on board British prison hulks, 1775–1815 Anna McKay\u003cbr\u003e 10. “What number?”: Reform, authority, and identity in late-eighteenth-century military buttons Matthew Keagle\u003cbr\u003e 11. Two men's leather letter cases: Mercantile pride and hierarchies of display Pauline Rushton\u003cbr\u003e 12. The aesthetic of smallness: Chelsea porcelain seal trinkets and Britain's global gaze, 1750–1775 Patricia F. Ferguson\u003cbr\u003e 13. “Small gifts foster friendship”: Hortense de Beauharnais, amateur art, and the politics of exchange in post-revolutionary France Marina Kliger\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Small Things on the Move: 14. Hooke's ant Tita Chico\u003cbr\u003e 15. Portable patriotism: Britannia and material nationhood in miniature Serena Dyer\u003cbr\u003e 16. Revolutionary histories in small things: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette on printed ceramics, c. 1793–1796 Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth\u003cbr\u003e 17. A box of tea and the British Empire Romita Ray\u003cbr\u003e 18. Afterword: A thing's perspective Hanneke Grootenboer.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003145113880,"sku":"9781108834452","price":61.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108834452i.jpg?v=1696727193","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/small-things-in-the-eighteenth-century-the-political-and-personal-value-of-the-miniature-hardback-9781108834452","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}