Consumption and the Country House

Amy Harris, The Historian With keen historiographic insights and a wealth of interesting detail, the authors of this book have produced an insightful account of consumption and class in eighteenth-century England ... the authors have provided a lucid and illuminating account of elite eighteenth-century consumption.

Jon Stobart is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University. His has published widely on the history of consumption, retailing and leisure in eighteenth-century England, and has a particular interest in the spatiality of consumption and the marketing of goods. His recent publications include Sugar and Spice: Grocer and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830 (2013), Selling Textiles in the Long Eighteenth Century (2014), co-edited with Bruno Blonde, and The Country House: Material Culture and Consumption (2015), co-edited with Andrew Hann. Mark Rothery is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Northampton. He specialises in the history of landed elites and has published widely in this area on themes such as gender, masculinity, sociability and landed estates. He co-authored a book with Professor Henry French entitled Man's Estate: Landed Gentry Masculinities 1660-1914 (2012) and is the author of a number of major journal articles.

Introduction 1: Anatomy of elite spending: fashion, luxury, and splendour 2: Constructing the country house: habitus, performance, and assemblages of goods 3: Practicalities, utility, and the everydayness of consumption 4: Gentlemen's things: the masculine world of goods and consumption as self fashioning 5: Gentlewomen's things: women and country house consumption 6: Consumption and the household: family, friends, and servants 7: Supplying the country house: craftsmen and retailers 8: Geographies of consumption: hierarchies, localities, and shopping Conclusions Appendix: family trees Bibliography