Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760: Treacherous Objects, Secret Places (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)

Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture (and its associated designs, rituals and symbols) was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the British Isles. The fresh theoretical model it presents challenges existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture. Material Culture and Sedition, 1688-1760 is a groundbreaking study of the ways in which material culture was used to avoid prosecution for treason and sedition in the eighteenth century. Challenging existing accounts of the public sphere and consumer culture, it argues that the birth of modern Britain was accompanied by political repression which helped develop a counter-culture of treacherous objects and secret societies. Though set in the Jacobite period in the British Isles, it considers transnational evidence and sets out an approach which can be applied in a wide variety of other contexts Front Matter....Pages i-xv Treacherous Objects: Towards a Theory of Jacobite Material Culture....Pages 1-31 Décor, Decoration and Design....Pages 32-58 Sedition, Symbols, Colours, Cant and Codes....Pages 59-92 Associations and Antiquarians....Pages 93-124 Propaganda: Medals, Weapons, Glass, Ceramics and Relics....Pages 125-150 Postscript: The Making of Memory....Pages 151-158 Back Matter....Pages 159-226