A material world culture, society, and the life of things in early Anglo-America
"A collection of essays that examine early American cultural, political, and social history through a material lens, exploring the meanings of objects ranging from artworks and domestic furnishings to Penn's Treaty Tree"--Provided by publisher.
| Other Authors: | Boudreau, George W. (Editor), Lovell, Margaretta M. (Editor) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
The Pennsylvania State University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : culture, society, and the material world /
- Margaretta Markle Lovell
- Picturing Penn : portraits, public memory, and the political culture of late colonial Pennsylvania /
- George W. Boudreau
- Ascending the stair : Charles Wilson Peale's Staircase group, reimagining a grand-manner portrait in federal Philadelphia /
- Carol Eaton Soltis
- Artists' materials and the transatlantic craft traditions of eighteenth-century American portrait painting /
- Ellen G. Miles
- Clock making in southwestern Connecticut, 1760-1820 /
- Paul G.E. Clemens and Edward S. Cooke Jr.
- Face, place, and power : James Logan, Stenton, and the Anglo-American gentleman's house /
- Stephen G. Hague
- Trophy heads at Monticello /
- Margaretta Markle Lovell
- "Painting" faces and "dressing" tables : concealment in colonial dressing furniture /
- Jennifer Van Horn
- Mommy dearest : Britannica, American, and mother-daughter conflicts in eighteenth-century prints and medals /
- Nancy Siegel
- "The family of Derby has a taste in this way" : the homes of Elias Hasket and Elizabeth Derby, 1762-1799 /
- Emily A. Murphy
- From region to nation : M.F. Cornáe's Landing of the pilgrims and the circulation of images in the early republic /
- Patricia Johnston
- Remembering the "olden time" : John Fanning Watson's cultivation of memory and relics in early national Philadelphia /
- Laura C. Keim.