Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851
Furniture-Makers and Consumers in England, 1754–1851

Author: Akiko Shimbo

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-15

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1317131282

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Covering the period from the publication of Thomas Chippendale's The Gentleman and Cabinet-Makers' Director (1754) to the Great Exhibition (1851), this book analyses the relationships between producer retailers and consumers of furniture and interior design, and explores what effect dialogues surrounding these transactions had on the standardisation of furniture production during this period. This was an era, before mass production, when domestic furniture was made both to order and from standard patterns and negotiations between producers and consumers formed a crucial part of the design and production process. This study narrows in on three main areas of this process: the role of pattern books and their readers; the construction of taste and style through negotiation; and daily interactions through showrooms and other services, to reveal the complexities of English material culture in a period of industrialisation.

The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645
The Consort Music of William Lawes, 1602-1645

Author: John Patrick Cunningham

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 378

ISBN-13: 0954680979

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This book looks at the work of one of England's finest composers, William Lawes. It provides a contextual examination of music at the court of Charles I, a detailed study of Lawes's autograph sources and an examination of his consort music.

Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture
Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture

Author: Emily Cock

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 1526137186

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Challenging histories of plastic surgery that posit a complete disappearance of Gaspare Tagliacozzi’s rhinoplasty operation after his death in 1599, Rhinoplasty and the nose in early modern British medicine and culture traces knowledge of the procedure within the early modern British medical community, through to its impact on the nineteenth-century revival of skin-flap facial surgeries. The book explores why such a procedure was controversial, and the cultural importance of the nose, offering critical readings of literary noses from Shakespeare to Laurence Sterne. Medical knowledge of the graft operation was accompanied by a spurious story that the nose would be constructed from flesh purchased from a social inferior, and would drop off when that person died. The volume therefore explores this narrative in detail for its role in the procedure’s stigmatisation, its engagement with the doctrine of medical sympathy, and its unique attempt to commoditise living human flesh.