Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823. (20th March 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823. (20th March 2019)
- Main Title:
- Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823
- Authors:
- Dyer, Serena
- Abstract:
- Abstract: This article examines Barbara Johnson's Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a vicar's daughter. The album contains over a hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight and eighty‐five. Interrogated alongside the Johnson family correspondence and didactic tools produced by Johnson's mother, this article argues that the album acted as a material form of account book, conceived as a moral, financial and material regulator. Considered within the emerging framework of material knowledge and consumer skill, the album provides important evidence of how consumers maintained and developed their material literacy.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal for eighteenth-century studies. Volume 42:Number 3(2019)
- Journal:
- Journal for eighteenth-century studies
- Issue:
- Volume 42:Number 3(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 42, Issue 3 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0042-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 263
- Page End:
- 282
- Publication Date:
- 2019-03-20
- Subjects:
- consumption -- material culture -- dress -- fashion -- material knowledge -- material literacy -- accounting -- account book
Eighteenth century -- Periodicals
Europe -- Civilization -- 18th century -- Periodicals
Dix-huitième siècle -- Périodiques
Civilisation -- 18e siècle -- Périodiques
940.25305 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1754-0208 ↗
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http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1754-0194 ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/1754-0208.12616 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1754-0194
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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