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… Image ‘Title page of Bernard Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees’, Wikimedia Commons, 1714. Résumé Luxury has always been difficult to define. The eighteenth century saw a shift from ‘old’ to ‘new’ luxury (de Vries), from aristocratic displays of wealth and power to the widespread and sociable use of commodities like … individual status, in domestic settings and in public spaces. McKendrick even claims a ‘consumer revolution’. If luxury was often coded as pernicious and immoral, some thinkers (e.g. Mandeville) provocatively praised its merits for …

… shared cultural references. Places > Sports & Leisure Mots-clés Advertisement Chinoiserie Entertainement Exoticism Luxury Masquerade Pleasure gardens Politeness Ranelagh was one of the ‘pleasure gardens’, places of entertainment which … enjoy the Georgian visual culture of surprising landscape vistas, displays of the commodities produced by the developing luxury crafts of the time, together with a culture of sociability based on mutual representation, since the visitors came … p. 126-131  (M. Bramble to Dr. Lewis, London, 20 May). … Advertisement … Chinoiserie … Entertainement … Exoticism … Luxury … Masquerade … Pleasure gardens … Politeness … Ranelagh …

… was an English imitation of Italian glass, which had been imported from Venice since the sixteenth century but was a luxury that very few could afford despite the foundation of a glass manufacture in London in 1574. A new luxury in the late seventeenth century, flint glass, a hard, white, high-quality product, became increasingly available … stem was used for small glasses as well as for large ceremonial goblets for communal drinking at court. 3 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 117-126. An example of a …

… le 15/01/2025, URL: https://www.digitens.org/fr/notices/politeness.html Références complémentaires Berg, Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) . Berry, Helen, ‘ Rethinking … of contemporary developments in urban living, class aspiration, print culture and consumption patterns. … Berg, Maxine, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) . Berry, Helen, ‘ Rethinking …

… Indias [Indies]', © National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG D12417, 1791. Résumé In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was … Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Consumption Domesticity Femininity Slave trade Tea Tea-table Sugar, which had been a luxury good up to the mid-seventeenth century, became more affordable and more common in the eighteenth century. It was … Poem upon Tea  ( 1712 ).* In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology A Poem upon Tea (1712) … In the eighteenth century, sugar, once a luxury item, became more affordable and was used as a sweetener for tea and baked goods at a time when the tea-table was …

… sights on the Strand in the eighteenth century, spaces that helped construct an intelligentsia. 3 The promotion of luxury was augmented at the beginning of the nineteenth century by the construction of Regent Street and of upmarket arcades (such as the Burlington Arcade on Piccadilly) where the elite could both window shop and sample luxury goods. The forms of display in the area allowed for the construction of identities such as the fop and, later the … 8 Such institutions often produced dining clubs where men could enjoy a spirit of conviviality. 6 . Maxine Berg, Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 207. 7 . Jonathan Harris, …

… Exhibitions Exoticism Fragrance Menageries Travel Royal Menageries: The Queen’s Zebra Seen as an establishment of luxury and curiosity a menagerie was, in eighteenth-century England, a collection of captive exotic animals kept by … were employed as ingredients to prepare elite delicacies, exotic fragrances and highly refined hair products epitomising luxury, gentility and respectability. In particular, the Georgians developed a real mania for the exotic turtle which was … whose waxy yellow-brown secretion exuded a strong musky odour. Perfumes and wig powders were made with civet epitomising luxury, decadence and sensuality for much of the eighteenth century. Both an aphrodisiac and a perfume, civet was perhaps …