The Banality of Gilding: Innocuous Materiality and Transatlantic Consumption in the Gilded Age

dc.contributor.authorMullins, Paul R.
dc.contributor.authorJeffries, Nigel
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-14T20:27:49Z
dc.date.available2014-07-14T20:27:49Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines Gilded Age affluence by focusing on apparently inconsequential decorative goods and assessing how such goods were part of shared transatlantic patterns that reached beyond the Gilded Age and the confines of urban America. The paper focuses on figurines recovered from 19th-century sites in London and underscores how the American Gilded Age amplified many early 19th-century material patterns and ideological practices that were well-established in the United Kingdom and continued after the height of Gilded Age affluence. This study examines the symbolism of such aesthetically eclectic goods and focuses on the socially grounded imagination that was invested in them borrowing from dominant ideologies and idiosyncratic personal experiences alike.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMullins, P.R., & Jeffries, N. (2012). The banality of gilding: Innocuous materiality and transatlantic consumption in the gilded age. International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 16(4), 745-760. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10761-012-0206-xen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1805/4672
dc.titleThe Banality of Gilding: Innocuous Materiality and Transatlantic Consumption in the Gilded Ageen_US
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