Title Consumption and the country house / Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (x, 304 pages) : illustrations Series Online access with subscription: University Press scholarship online (Oxford scholarship online) Contents Cover; Consumption and the Country House; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Introduction; LANDOWNERS AND THE COUNTRY HOUSE; APPROACHING CONSUMPTION; KEY THEMES; CASE-STUDY FAMILIES; 1: Anatomy of Elite Spending: Fashion, Luxury, and Splendour; INTRODUCTION; RHYTHMS OF SPENDING; PATTERNS OF SPENDING; MARKING ELITE STATUS: LUXURY AND FASHION; CONCLUSION; 2: Constructing the Country House: Habitus, Performance, and Assemblages of Goods; INTRODUCTION; GRAND DESIGNS? TASTE AND LINEAGE; ROOM SPECIALIZATION: STAGES AND PERFORMANCES OBJECTS OF DESIRE? ASSEMBLAGES AND LOCATIONSCONCLUSION; 3: Practicalities, Utility, and the Everydayness of Consumption; INTRODUCTION; HOUSEHOLD MANAGEMENT: SUPPLIES AND STORES; MUNDANE SPACES: BELOW STAIRS; COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE; OLD THINGS AND FAMILY CONNECTIONS; CONCLUSION; 4: Gentlemen's Things: The Masculine World of Goods and Consumption as Self-fashioning; INTRODUCTION; MASCULINITY AND THE WORLD OF GOODS: THE MEN OF THE LEIGH FAMILY; CONSUMPTION AND SELF-FASHIONING: SIR ROGER NEWDIGATE AND ARBURY HALL; CONCLUSION; 5: Gentlewomen's Things: Women and Country House Consumption INTRODUCTIONGOVERNING IDENTITIES: THE HONOURABLE MARY LEIGH; MARRIED GENTLEWOMEN: SOPHIA AND HESTER NEWDIGATE; THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE WIDOW: ELIZABETH DRYDEN OF CANONS ASHBY; CONCLUSION; 6: Consumption and the Household: Family, Friends, and Servants; INTRODUCTION; CHILDREN AND PARENTS: INTERGENERATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES; DEATH, MEMORY, AND FAMILY; FAMILY FRIENDS: TRUSTEES AND GUARDIANS; SENIOR SERVANTS: MANAGING THE HOUSEHOLD; CONCLUSIONS; 7: Supplying the Country House: Craftsmen and Retailers; INTRODUCTION; SUPPLIERS: PATRONAGE AND LOYALTY; REPUTATION, CREDIT, AND TRUST MAKING AND SHAPING TASTE: THE ROLE OF SUPPLIERSCONCLUSIONS; 8: Geographies of Consumption: Hierarchies, Localities, and Shopping; INTRODUCTION; GEOGRAPHIES AND HIERARCHIES OF SUPPLY; SEASONALITY, LOCALITY, AND CHOICE; GEOGRAPHIES OF LONDON SHOPPING; CONCLUSIONS; Conclusions; MOTIVATIONS, IDENTITIES, AND MATERIAL CULTURE; SPATIALITIES, PRACTICALITIES, AND SUPPLY; CONSUMPTION AND THE COUNTRY HOUSE; Appendix; Bibliography; ARCHIVAL SOURCES; PRINTED PRIMARY SOURCES; SECONDARY SOURCES; Index Summary This study explores the consumption practices of the landed aristocracy of Georgian England. Focussing on three families and drawing on detailed analysis of account books, receipted bills, household inventories, diaries and correspondence, this book charts the spending patterns of this elite group during the so-called consumer revolution of the eighteenth century. Generally examined through the lens of middling families, homes and motivations, this book explores the ways in which the aristocracy were engaged in this wider transformation of English society. Analysis centres on the goods that the aristocracy purchased, both luxurious and mundane; the extent to which they pursued fashionable modes and goods; the role that family and friends played in shaping notions of taste; the influence of gender on taste and refinement; the geographical reach of provisioning and the networks that lay behind this consumer activity, and the way this all contributed to the construction of the country house. The country house thus emerges as much more than a repository of luxury and splendour; it lay at the heart of complex networks of exchange, sociability, demand, and supply Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Country homes -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century Country homes -- Economic aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century Country homes -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 18th century Country homes -- Social aspects -- England -- History -- 19th century Architecture -- England -- History -- 18th century Architecture -- England -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Architecture Country homes -- Economic aspects Manners and customs SUBJECT England -- Social life and customs -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043323 England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85043324 Subject England Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Rothery, Mark, 1973- author ISBN 9780191793219 0191793213 9780191039690 0191039691

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