Fanny’s pockets: cotton, consumption and domestic economy, 1780-1840
Burman, B. and White, J. (2007) Fanny’s pockets: cotton, consumption and domestic economy, 1780-1840. In, Batchelor, Jennie and Kaplan, Cora (eds.) Women and Material Culture 1650 –1830. Basingstoke, UK, Palgrave Macmillan, 31-51.
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This essay utilises new research findings from the Pockets of History project. Intended as a development of, and corrective to, certain dress history narratives, it is significant because it asks a key question: ‘what does the analysis and interpretation of material culture commit scholars to doing?’ It suggests the benefits of a methodology that draws on a full range of techniques and approaches from the emerging field of material culture studies. In the process, we demonstrate the interdependence of textual, visual and material culture and argue for an inclusive social history based on genuine dialogue between what have been discrete disciplines. The social history of these objects, the pockets, and the social worlds within which they were produced and used, we argue, requires a genuinely interdisciplinary inquiry which can draw on histories of technology, trade, business and dress as well as broader processes of socio-economic change, alongside a newer attention to the material properties of objects and a similar recognition of the importance of literary and visual culture records and methods.
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| Additional Information: | This essay utilises new research findings from the Pockets of History project. Intended as a development of, and corrective to, certain dress history narratives, it is significant because it asks a key question: ‘what does the analysis and interpretation of material culture commit scholars to doing?’ It suggests the benefits of a methodology that draws on a full range of techniques and approaches from the emerging field of material culture studies. In the process, we demonstrate the interdependence of textual, visual and material culture and argue for an inclusive social history based on genuine dialogue between what have been discrete disciplines. The social history of these objects, the pockets, and the social worlds within which they were produced and used, we argue, requires a genuinely interdisciplinary inquiry which can draw on histories of technology, trade, business and dress as well as broader processes of socio-economic change, alongside a newer attention to the material properties of objects and a similar recognition of the importance of literary and visual culture records and methods. |
| ISBNs: | 0230007058 (hardback) 9780230007055 (hardback) |
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| Keywords: | pocket, dress history, material culture, social history |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain N Fine Arts > NK Decorative arts Applied arts Decoration and ornament |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Art |
| Item ID: | 48181 |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Sep 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 13:53 |
| Contributors: | Burman, B. (Author) White, J. (Author) Batchelor, Jennie (Editor) Kaplan, Cora (Editor) |
| Date: | 15 June 2007 |
| Additional Information: | This essay utilises new research findings from the Pockets of History project. Intended as a development of, and corrective to, certain dress history narratives, it is significant because it asks a key question: ‘what does the analysis and interpretation of material culture commit scholars to doing?’ It suggests the benefits of a methodology that draws on a full range of techniques and approaches from the emerging field of material culture studies. In the process, we demonstrate the interdependence of textual, visual and material culture and argue for an inclusive social history based on genuine dialogue between what have been discrete disciplines. The social history of these objects, the pockets, and the social worlds within which they were produced and used, we argue, requires a genuinely interdisciplinary inquiry which can draw on histories of technology, trade, business and dress as well as broader processes of socio-economic change, alongside a newer attention to the material properties of objects and a similar recognition of the importance of literary and visual culture records and methods. |
| Status: | Published |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/48181 |
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