The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took

Revealing the entangled lives of texts and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world. "Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."—Asociac

The eighteenth century has been hailed for its revolution in consumer culture, but Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain repositions Britain as a nati

This book charts the novel's vibrant engagement with clothes, examining how fiction revises and reshapes material objects within its pages.

The history of men's needlework has long been considered a taboo subject. This is the first book ever published to document and critically interrogate a range o