27 March Introduction

29 March Consumer Society
Slater, Don. Consumer culture and modernity, pp.8-99.
Acknowledging consumption : a review of new studies / edited by Daniel Miller, pp.1-57
            
3 April Consumption and the history of consumer society
Brewer, typescript, Studying Contemporary Consumption: what can we learn from the early modern era?
Agnew ‘Coming up for Air: consumer culture in historical perspective’ in Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter, pp. 19-39.
Acknowledging consumption: a review of new studies / edited by Daniel Miller, pp.164-203.
Slater, Don. Consumer culture and modernity, pp.100-173.
           
5 April The Italian Renaissance
Worldly  goods : a new history of the Renaissance / Lisa Jardine. New York : Nan A. Talese, c1996, pp. 1-180
Wealth and the demand for art in Italy, 1300-1600 / Richard A. Goldthwaite, 1-65.

10 April The Renaissance 2. 
Worldly  goods : a new history of the Renaissance / Lisa Jardine. New York : Nan A. Talese, c1996, 277-330, 379-436
Wealth and the demand for art in Italy, 1300-1600 / Richard A. Goldthwaite, pp. 150-255.
 
12 April  The Dutch Case
The embarrassment of riches: an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age / Simon Schama.  Berkeley: University of California Press, Distributed by Random House, pp.130-220, 289-371.
Simon Schama, ‘Perishable commodities; Dutch still-life painting and the  ‘empire of things’, in . in Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter, pp. 478-488.

17  April Capitalism and material Life                           
Braudel, Fernand  Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800, pp.ix-xv, 37-97,  121-191

19 April Globalization 1: New Worlds
Mukerji, Chandra. From graven images: patterns of modern materialism /, pp.1-130, 243-261.
          
 24 April Globalization 2: Europe and the Far East
Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800. By S. A. M.
Adshead. New York: St. Martin's Press and London: Macmillan Press, 1997.
John E. Wills, ‘European Consumption and Asian production in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries’, in Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter, pp. 133-47.
Peter Burke, ‘Res et verba: conspicuous consumption in the early modern world’, in Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter, pp. 148-61.

26 April   Imperial Produce
     Carole Shammas, ‘Changes in English and Anglo-American consumption from
     1550 to 1800, in Brewer and Porter, pp.177-205.
Walvin, James Fruits of empire: exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800       (New York: New York University Press, 1997).

1 May Luxury
Joyce Appleby, ‘Consumption in early modern social thought’, in Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter, pp. 162-176
Maxine Berg, ‘New Commodities, luxuries and their consumers in C18 England’, Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850, ed Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford ((Manchester University Press, Manchester and new York, 1999), pp. 63-87
Porter, ‘Consumption: disease of the consumer society’, in Brewer and Porter, pp. 58-81.
 
3 May The Birth of a Consumer Society?
Mckendrick, ‘introduction’ in The birth of a consumer society: the commercialization of eighteenth-century England / Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb, pp. 1-33.
John Styles, ‘Manufacturing, consumption and design in C18 England’, in Brewer and Porter, pp. 527-554.
Lorna Wetherill, ‘the Meaning of consumer behaviour in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England’, in brewer and Porter, pp. 206-27.

8 May  France.
Fairchilds, The production and marketing of populuxe goods in C18 Paris, in Brewer and Porter, pp. 228-248
Jones and Spang, Sans culottes, sans café, sans tabac: shifting realms of necessity and luxury in C18 France, in Berg and Clifford, pp.37-62.
Roche, The People of Paris: an essay in popular culture in the C18, pp. 97-196, 230-270.

10 May Clothing
The culture of clothing: dress and fashion in the "ancien régime" / Daniel Roche; translated by Jean Birrell, pp.3-259.

15 May Clothing and the Body
Roche, The Culture of Clothing, 399-519.
Pointon, Jewelry in 18th century England’ in Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850, ed Maxine Berg and Helen Clifford, pp. 120-146.
Pointon, Marcia, Hanging the head. Portraiture and Social Formation in 18th century England (Yale, 1993), pp. 107-140.

17  May Gender and Consumption
John Brewer, ‘the most polite age and the most vicious’ in Bermingham and Brewer, pp. 341-361.
De Grazia, ‘Introduction, The sex of things, pp.  .
 

22 May Gender and Women
Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Consuming Subjects. Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth century (Columbia University Press, 1997)
Pointon, Strategies for Showing; Women, Possession, & Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800. New York:  Oxford University Press, March 1997, pp. 1-57.
 

24 May Memory and consumption
Vickery, ‘Women and the World of Goods: a Lancashire Consumer and her possessions, 1751-81’, in Brewer and Porter, pp.274-301.
Marius Quint (ed.),  Material Memories, pp. 1-74.

31 May Conclusion
 
 

 
READING LIST WITH LIBRARY CALL NUMBERS WHERE AVAILABLE.
 

Braudel, Fernand  Capitalism and material life, 1400-1800 / 
  HC45.B8204 1974 –
 
The birth of a consumer society : the commercialization of eighteenth-century England / Neil McKendrick, John Brewer and J.H. Plumb. London : Europa Publications, 1982. 
 HC257.E5M37 1982 
 

Consumption and the world of goods / edited by John Brewer and Roy Porter.                           London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. HC79.C6C65 1993 
 

The consumption of culture, 1600-1800 : image, object, text / edited by Ann Bermingham
 and John Brewer. 
 New York : Routledge, 1995. DA485.C6670 1995 

Acknowledging consumption : a review of new studies / edited by Daniel Miller.            London ; New York : Routledge, 1995. HB820.A250 1995 

The culture of clothing : dress and fashion in the "ancien régime" / Daniel Roche ; translated by Jean Birrell. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994. GT857.R63130 1994 

Material Culture in Europe and China, 1400-1800. By S. A. M. ADSHEAD. New York: St. Martin's Press and London: Macmillan Press, 1997.
HC240.9.C6A38 1997

Worldly  goods : a new history of the Renaissance / Lisa Jardine. New York : Nan A. Talese, c1996. CB361 .J35 1996

Wealth and the demand for art in Italy, 1300-1600 / Richard A. Goldthwaite. 
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1993. HC310.W4G650 1993

Slater, Don. Consumer culture and modernity 
              HC79.C6S58 1997 Cambridge : Polity Press ; Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 1997.

The embarrassment of riches: an interpretation of Dutch culture in the Golden Age / Simon Schama.  Berkeley: University of California Press, Distributed by Random House, c1988.  DJ158.S321 1988
 
 

Mukerji, Chandra. 
From graven images : patterns of modern materialism / 
  HC51.M770 1983 New York : Columbia University Press, 1983.

The sex of things: gender and consumption in historical perspective / edited by Victoria de  Grazia, with Ellen Furlough ; introduction by Victoria de Grazia.                               Berkeley : University of California Press, c1996. HF5415.32.S490 1996

Pointon, Marcia, Hanging the head. Portraiture and Social Formation in 18th century England (Yale, 1993),.

Pointon, Marcia
Strategies for Showing; Women, Possession, & Representation in English Visual Culture 1665-1800. New York:  Oxford University Press, Incorporated,  March 1997.

Consumers and Luxury: Consumer Culture in Europe 1650-1850, ed Maxine berg and Helen Clifford ((Manchester University Press, Manchester and new York, 1999), distributed in the US by St martin's press, ISBN no 0 7190 5273 4.

Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace, Consuming Subjects. Women, Shopping, and Business in the Eighteenth century (Columbia University Press, 1997). HC260.C6K690 1997

Walvin, James 
Fruits of empire : exotic produce and British taste, 1660-1800 (New York : New York University Press, 1997), HF3505 .W35 1997. 

Marius Quint (ed.), Material Memories.  Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999.
 
 

Document Reader:
“Trials for Adultery &c. Richard Lord Grosvenor, against Henrietta Lady Grosvenor," from Trials for Adultery; or, The History of Divorces (Garland, 1895), vol. 5, pp. 1-304, vol. 6, pp. 3-202

Lucyle Werkmeister, The London daily Press 1772-1792 ((Univiersity of Nebraska press, 1963), pp. 1-60, 109-50.

Cindy McCleery, “Keeping up with the Bon Ton: the Tete a Tete series in the Town and Country Magazine, in Hannah Barker and Elaine Chalus (eds.), Gender in Eighteenth-century England: Roles, Representations and responsibilities (Longmans, 1997), pp. 206-229.

John Brewer, Party Ideology and Popular Politics at the Accession of George III (Cambridge, 1976), an Alternative Structure of politics, pp. 139-60.

G. A. Cranfield, The Press and Society from Caxton to Northcliffe (London, 1978), pp.

John Brewer, "This, That and the other: Public, Social and Private in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," in Dario Castiglione & Lesley Sharpe (eds.), Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century (University of Exeter Press, 1995), pp. 1-21.

Michael Macdonald & Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless Souls: Suicide in early modern England (Clarendon, Oxford, 1990), pp.301-337

Clare Brant, “Speaking of women: scandal and the law in the mid-eighteenth century," in Women, Texts, & Histories 1575-1760, ed Clare Brant and Diane Purkiss (London, 1992), pp 242-70.

Stephan Landsman, “The Rise of the Contentious Spirit: Adversary Procedure in Eighteenth century England," Cornell Law Review 75 (March 1990), pp.498-609.

John H. Langbein,  ‘The Criminal Trial  before the Lawyers,” University of Chicago Law Review, 45 (Winter, 1978), pp. 263-316

John H. Langbein, “Shaping the Eighteenth-century Criminal trial: a View from the Ryder Sources,” University of Chicago Law Review, 50 (Winter, 1983), 1-136.

Joel Peter Eigen, “Intentionality and Insanity: What the eighteenth-century juror heard”, In William F. Bynum, Roy Porter, and Michael Shepherd (eds.), The Anatomy of Madness, vol. 2: Institutions and Society (Tavistock, 1985), pp.

Joel Peter Eigen, Witnessing Insanity. Madness and Mad-Doctors in the English Court (Yale, 1995), pp.1-81, 161-189.

Nigel Walker, Crime and Insanity in England, vol. 1

The Letters of Doctor George Cheyne to Samuel Richardson (1723-1743), edited with an introduction by Charles F. Mullett (Columbia, Missouri, 1943).

George Rousseau, “”Towards a semiotics of the nerve: The social history of language in a new key”, in Peter Burke and Roy Porter(eds.), Language, self and society: a social history of language (Polity, 1991), pp. 213-75.

Barker Benfield, The Culture of Sensibility.  Sex and Society in Eighteenth-century England (Chicago, 1992), pp.1-36.

John Mullan, Sentiment and Sociability: the Language of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford, 1988), pp.201-240.

Lincoln B. Faller, Turned to Account: the forms and functions of criminal biography in late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1987).

Peter Linebaugh, ‘The Ordinary of Newgate and his Account”, J.S Coburn (ed.) Crime in England 1550-1800 (1977),

V.A.C. Gatrell, The Hanging Tree. Execution and the English People, 1770-1868 (Cambridge, 1996), pp.1-28; 225-297.

Ann Jessie van Sant, Eighteenth-Century Sensibility and the novel.  The sense in social context (Cambridge, 1993), pp.45-59.

Document Reader:
Love and Madness. A Story too True. in a series of letters between parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamented (G. Kearsly, London, 1780).

Max Novak, ‘The Sensibility of Sir Herbert Croft in Love and Madness and the “Life of Edward Young”, The Age of Johnson 199  pp. 189-207.

Hayden White, “The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of reality”. In The Content in the Form, Narrative Discourse and Historical representation (Hopkins, 1987), pp. 1-25, 215-6.

Paul Baines, ‘The Macaroni Parson and the Marvellous Boy: literature and forgery in the eighteenth century”, Angelaki, vol. 1 no.2 (winter 1993/4), pp. 95-112.

Michael Macdonald & Terence R. Murphy, Sleepless Souls.  Suicide in early modern England (Clarendon, Oxford, 1990), pp.176-216, 290-300

Roy Porter, `Love, Sex and Madness in Eighteenth-Century England’, Social Research, vol. 53 no 2 (summer 1986), pp. 211-242.

Helen Small, Love’s Madness. Medicine, the Novel and female Insanity 1800-1865 (Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 1-71.

Erasmus Darwin, Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (2 vols, Joseph Johnson, London, 1794),  vol. 2 p.365.

Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads: The Thorn in Lyrical Ballads, and other Poems, 1797-1800 by William Wordsworth, ed. James Butler and Karen Green (Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1992), pp.77-85.

Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Stuart P. Atkins, The Testament of Werther in Poetry and Drama (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1949), esp. ch.2

Syndy McMillen Conger, ‘The Sorrows of Young Charlotte: Werther’s English Sisters, 1785-1805’, Goethe Yearbook 3 (1986), pp.21-56.