This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their everyday lives. Drawing on original research by a range of established and emerging scholars, each chapter peers into the lives of people from various social groups as they went about their daily lives, from citizens on the streets to aristocrats at home in their country houses, and from the urban elite at leisure to seamen on board ships bound for the East Indies. For all these people, daily routines were important in structuring their lives, giving them a rhythm that was knowable and meaningful in its temporal regularity, be that daily, weekly, or seasonal. So too were their everyday encounters and relationships with other people, within and beyond the home; these shaped their practices, movements, and identities and thus served to mould society in a broader sense.
Author(s): Gudrun Andersson, Jon Stobart
Series: Routledge Studiein Eighteenth-Century Cultures and Societies
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 272
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction: Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the (Very) Long Eighteenth Century
Part I Domestic Routines
1 Lifestyles and Lifespans: Domestic Material Culture and the Temporalities of Daily Life in Seventeenth-Century England
2 ‘A Little Paradise’: The Urban and Rural Homes of a Manchester Manufacturer
3 Life-Stage, Work and Daily Routines of the Eighteenth-Century Swedish Elite: Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna’s Diaries
4 The Rhythms and Routines of the English Country-House Garden
Part II Public Space
5 From Microhistory to Patterns of Urban Mobility: The Rhythm of Gendered Mobility in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam
6 Space, Sociability and Daily Life in Early Nineteenth-Century Finnish Polite Society
7 Kaleidoscopic Spaces: Slices of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Edo
Part III Home and Away
8 Around and About: The Daily Routines of a Councilman in Early Nineteenth-Century Sweden
9 Daily Lives Dislocated? Routine and Revolution in Britain’s North American Colonies
10 Everyday Life on the High Seas: Routines, Restrictions and Recreation on East Indiamen
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
