Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… Furniture Luxury Porcelain Shopping Tea-table Women The rise of consumer goods and consumerism made luxury a much-debated topic throughout the eighteenth century. By its very nature, luxury is always defined in relation to an audience … (china) and dances (dress), likewise in public leisure spaces. 3 Eighteenth-century Britain saw an ongoing luxury debate, which occurred during a period when consumerism and the availability of consumer goods were rapidly growing. 1 … the Dutch Golden Age in Theory and Practice’, in Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger (ed.) Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 41. 3 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and …
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