TY - JOUR
T1 - Barbara Johnson’s Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746-1823
AU - Dyer, Serena
N1 - © 2019 British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Dyer, S. (2019) Barbara Johnson's Album: Material Literacy and Consumer Practice, 1746‐1823. Journal for Eighteenth‐Century Studies, 42: 263– 282., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12616. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
PY - 2019/9
Y1 - 2019/9
N2 - This article examines Barbara Johnson’s Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a Reverend’s daughter. The Album contains over one-hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight and eighty-five. Interrogated alongside the Johnson family correspondence, and didactic tools produced by Johnson’s mother, this article argues that the Album acted as a material form of account book: conceived as a moral, financial, and material regulator. Considered within the emerging framework of material knowledge and consumer skill, the Album provides important evidence of how consumers maintained and developed their material literacy.
AB - This article examines Barbara Johnson’s Album, a prolific record of the dress consumption of a Reverend’s daughter. The Album contains over one-hundred samples of dress fabrics acquired by Johnson between the ages of eight and eighty-five. Interrogated alongside the Johnson family correspondence, and didactic tools produced by Johnson’s mother, this article argues that the Album acted as a material form of account book: conceived as a moral, financial, and material regulator. Considered within the emerging framework of material knowledge and consumer skill, the Album provides important evidence of how consumers maintained and developed their material literacy.
U2 - 10.1111/1754-0208.12616
DO - 10.1111/1754-0208.12616
M3 - Article
SN - 1754-0208
VL - 42
SP - 263
EP - 282
JO - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
JF - Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
IS - 3
ER -