
- Routledge
Spaces of Consumption: Leisure and Shopping in the English Town, c.1680-1830


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- Jon Stobart
- Routledge
- Hardcover
- 9780415424554
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.63 inches
- 1.19 pounds
- History > Europe - Great Britain - General
- English

Book Description
Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially.
Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption - selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading - and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.
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