Furnishing the Eighteenth Century: What Furniture Can Tell Us About the European and American Past

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Table of Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Dena Goodman and Kathryn Norberg Part 1: Mapping Meaning Globally 1. Orientalism, Colonialism, and Furniture in Eighteenth-Century France Madeleine Dobie, Columbia University 2. Luxury Markets in Saint Domingue: Mahogany as a Case Study Chaela Pastore, California State University, San Marcos 3. A Wanton Chase in a Foreign Place: Hogarth and the Gendering of Exoticism in the Eighteenth-Century Interior David Porter, University of Michigan Part 2: Diffusion 4. Fashion, Business, Diffusion: An Upholsterer's Shop in Eighteenth-Century Paris Translated by Kathryn Norberg & Dena Goodman Natacha Coquery, Universite de Tours 5. Sideboards, Side Chairs, and Globes: Changing Modes of Furnishing Provincial Culture in the Early Republic, 1790-1820 David Jaffee, University of North Florida Part 3: Social Meaning and Social Power 6. Color Schemes and Decorative Tastes in the Noble Houses of Seventeenth-Century Dauphine Donna Bohanon, Auburn University 7. Tea Tables Overturned: Rituals of Power and Place in Colonial America Ann Smart Martin, University of Wisconsin-Madison 8. Goddess of Taste: Courtesans and their Furniture in the Late Eighteenth Century Kathryn Norberg 9. Decoration and Enlightened Spectatorship Mary Salzman, Stanford University Part 4: Hidden Meanings: Psychology and Security 10. The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Seriality in the French Interior Mimi Hellman, Skidmore College 11. The Secretaire and the Integration of the Eighteenth-Century Self Dena Goodman 12. Looking at Furniture Inside Out: Strategies for Concealment and Secrecy in Eighteenth-Century French Furniture Carolyn Sargentson, Victoria and Albert Museum Notes on Contributors Index

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