The Artful Pocket: A Social History of an Everyday Object in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Britain
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (968 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1409439364 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Identifying what is unique about its material evidence and object-attentive approach, the book engages extensively with traditional historical and literary sources in order to establish how the object is integrated within social and cultural practices and to map discursive and dynamic relations between the material object and the social world - sources such as fiction or drama where pockets are represented in use but also family papers, shop inventories and court records of criminal cases involving pocket-picking to name but a few. The book registers the full material range of the object at its heart, from elaborately embellished to humdrum, patched and stained examples. It does t