Luxury [ Taste & Manners ]
… Concepts > Taste & Manners Keywords Art Commodities Community Consumption 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 … and Popular Culture in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’, History (vol. 82, no. 266, April 1997) p. 203-207. Luxury, Women, and the Lower Classes The fundamental changes in consumer behaviour were accompanied by long-lasting debates about … clichés recur: since antiquity, opponents of luxury had upheld that luxury made men effeminate, while also emphasizing women’s propensity to luxury. Thus, in the context of the eighteenth-century luxury debate, stereotypes of class and …
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