Society & Culture

Books
BARKER-BENFIELD, G.J. The Culture of Sensibility: sex and society in eighteenth-century Britain. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.

BREWER, John. The Pleasures of the Imagination: English culture in eighteenth century. London: HarperCollins, c1997.

CARTER, Philip. Men and the Emergence of Polite Society, Britain, 1660-1800. Harlow, England: Pearson Education, 2001.

FLETCHER, Marion. Costume in Australia 1788-1901. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1984.

HILTON, Boyd. A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People: England, 1783-1846. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.

JORDAN, Robert John. The Convict Theatres of Early Australia 1788-1840. Strawberry Hills, NSW: Currency House, 2002.

Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: debates, desires and delectable goods. (eds.) Mazine Berg and Elizabeth Eger. New York: Palgrave, 2003.

MAYNARD, Margaret. Fashioned From Penury: dress as cultural practice in colonial Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.

SPACKS, Patricia Meyer. Privacy: concealing the eighteenth-century self. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.

WATERHOUSE, Richard. Private Pleasures, Public Leisure: a history of Australian popular culture since 1788. Melbourne: Longman, 1995.

Journal Articles

AVELING, Marian. "Imagining New South Wales as a Gendered Society, 1783-1821." Australian Historical Studies. Vol 25: No. 98 [1992] pp.1Ñ12.

HARVEY, Karen. "The Century of Sex: Gender, Bodies, and Sexuality in the Long Eighteenth Century." The Historical Journal Vol. 45, No. 4 (December 2002) pp. 899-916.

KLEIN, Lawrence E. "Politeness and the Interpretation of the British Eighteenth Century. The Historical Journal Vol. 45, No. 4 (December 2002) pp. 869-898.

LANGFORD, Paul. "British Politeness and the Progress of Western Manners: an Eighteenth-Century Enigma." Transactions of the Royal Historical Society VII (1997) pp. 53-72.

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