Eighteenth-century thing theory in a global context: from consumerism to celebrity culture

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Western European Fads: Porcelain, Fetishes, Museum Objects, Antiques

1. Caution, Contents May Be Hot: A Cultural Anatomy of the Tasse Trembleuse / Christine A. Jones

2. Cultural Currency: Chrysal, or The Adventures of a Guinea, and the Material Shape of Eighteenth-Century Celebrity / Kevin Bourque

3. Feather Cloaks and English Collectors: Cook's Voyages and the Objects of the Museum / Sophie Thomas

4. Imagining Ancient Egypt as the Idealized Self in Eighteenth-Century Europe / Kevin M. McGeough

pt. II Under Eastern Eyes: Garments, Portraits, Books

5. Frills and Perils of Fashion: Politics and Culture of the Eighteenth-Century Russian Court through the Eyes of La Mode / Victoria Ivleva

6. From Russia with Love: Souvenirs and Political Alliance in Martha Wilmot's The Russian Journals / Pamela Buck

7. "The Battle of the Books" in Catherine the Great's Russia: From a Jousting Tournament to a Tavern Brawl / Rimma Garn.

pt. III Latin American Encounters: Coins, Food, Accessories, Maps

8. From Peruvian Gold to British Guinea: Tropicopolitanism and Myths of Origin in Charles Johnstone's Chrysal / Mauricio E. Martinez

9. Eating Turtle, Eating the World: Comestible Things in the Eighteenth Century / Krystal McMillen

10. The Fur Parasol: Masculine Dress, Prosthetic Skins, and the Making of the English Umbrella in Robinson Crusoe / Irene Fizer

11. Terra Incognita on Maps of Eighteenth-Century Spanish America: Commodification, Consumption and the Transition from Inaccessible to Public Space / Lauren Beck

pt. IV Imagining Other Spaces: Trinkets, Collectibles, Ethnographic Artifacts, Scientific Objects

12. (Re- )Appropriating Trinkets: How to Civilize Polynesia with a Jack-in-the-Box / Laure Marcellesi

13. Images of Exotic Objects in the Abbe Prevost's Histoire Generale des Voyages / Antoine Eche

14. Souvenirs of the South Seas: Objects of Imperial Critique in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels / Jessica Durgan.