Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century is a welcome collection of essays on a very important topic. Since the 1982 appearance of the path-breaking The Birth of a Consumer Society, studies of consumption in eighteenth-century Western Europe have proliferated to confirm the thesis that the century experienced a dramatic surge in the production and consumption of goods.(1) This new, handsomely-edited vo...

The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England: Literature, Commerce, and Luxury (review)

Hanoverian London: the making of a service town.

UNTIL THE NINETEENTH CENTURY London had two geographical poles, the Court and the Port. Economically both these poles were defined primarily by their relationship to what a subsequent age would call the service sector. They were of course very different. The Court is taken here as a convenient shorthand that includes the government, parliament, the aristocracy and the Court’s allies in the prof...

The Attitude, motivation influence people’s buying Luxury goods: A survey of Chinese in China

Despite recent global economic downturns around the world, but Luxury goods still the popularity as some of the most popular products in the world. Now-days, more and more people know about Luxury goods and interested with Luxury goods. China has become the largest Luxury goods purchaser market. From the report 2013 it shows that Chinese people have buy 25% of the Luxury goods in the world(Husb...

Herder and Reappraising Sculpture as Tactile Art

The main objective of this essay is to re-examine the nature of sculpture and its importance among arts via retrieving and studying the relatively neglected importance of touch in the experience of this art. This objective is pursued according to eighteenth-century German philosopher, Johann Gottfried Herder, by focusing on his Sculpture: Some Observations on Shape and Form from Pygmalion’s Cre...