… for artefacts and enabled a typically eighteenth-century ‘sociable co-operation in the field of commerce’ that saw politeness be renegotiated as a cultural practice of both taste and valuation. 1 As the century unfolded, the auctions …
… wit or their breeding; their taste in conversation or living, in clothes or furniture. (Hume 107) Ur ban culture, taste, politeness , conversation , all rely on the refinement created by luxury. Thus, shopping for luxury goods such as silk …
Art | Commodities | Community | Consumption | Furniture | Luxury | Porcelain | Shopping | Tea-table | Women
… they want me to sing’. 10 Susan, so familiar with foreign modes of gentility, had experienced the difference between politeness and presumption: ‘ Mr Barry called – & talked Morality & Philosophy with my Mother – but told her, when she …
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