The Consumption of Culture 1600-1800 : Image, Object, Text

Culture does not become `culture' until it is consumed.

This is the interpretation of early modern social history presented in this text.

Contributors from North America and Europe explore topics such as the formation of a culture consuming public, the development of a literary canon, the role of consumption in the formation of the modern state, elite and popular forms of cultural consumption and the place of women as consumers of culture.