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Domestic Expertise: Literacy and Numeracy in the Eighteenth-Century Kitchen
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Takats, Sean |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | Long before it became fashionable to speak of the "consumer revolution" of the eighteenth century, Norbert Elias proposed that the eighteenth-century hôtel functioned as a "large organization centered on the consumption of goods." The notion of the hôtel as a site of consumption has continued to draw the interest of scholars. Working from Norbert Elias' contention that Parisian elites were "involved in the structure of the city solely as consumers," Natacha Coquery has recently traced an exhaustive network of the hôtel's merchants and purveyors as she seeks to characterize domestic spaces as sites of exchange. If the hôtel was a site of exchange, then its kitchen was one of its most important trading centers. Residential |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 32 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/domestic-expertise-literacy-and-numeracy-in-the-eighteenth.pdf?c=wsfh&format=pdf&idno=0642292.0032.004 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
