Small Things in the Eighteenth Century by Chloe Wigston Smith... - 9781108834452

Small Things in the Eighteenth CenturyThe Political and Personal Value of the Miniature\nAuthor(s): Chloe Wigston Smith, Beth Fowkes Tobin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108834452, 978-1108834452\nSynopsis\nOffering an intimate history of how small things were used, handled, and worn, this collection shows how objects such as mugs and handkerchiefs were entangled with quotidian practices and rituals of bodily care. Small things, from tiny books to ceramic trinkets and toothpick cases, could delightand entertain,generating tactile pleasuresfor users while at the same time signalling the limits of the body's adeptnessor the hand's dexterity. Simultaneously, the volume explores the striking mobility of small things: how fans, coins, rings, and pottery could, for instance, carry political, philosophical, and cultural concepts into circumscribed spaces. From thedecorativeand playfulto theuseful an.