Saskia Polly Lowe
Saskia Polly Lowe
Economic and Social History
University of Exeter
College of Humanities
October 2019
The Marriage Market or Simply the Market? The Spouse as a Contested Commodity in Eighteenth Century Britain (MRes), Morality and the Market: Contested Commodification of the Body in Eighteenth-Century England (PhD)
My PhD research considers the eighteenth-century market through a socio-economic lens. I apply interdisciplinary ideas about ‘contested commodities’ and conflicting ideas of morality to early modern market attitudes, exploring and…
My PhD research considers the eighteenth-century market through a socio-economic lens. I apply interdisciplinary ideas about ‘contested commodities’ and conflicting ideas of morality to early modern market attitudes, exploring and comparing varied instances in which the body was involved in transactions, such as in the sex trade, slavery, and the cadaver trade.
My MRes dissertation explored changes to perceptions and practices of marriage within the context of the shifting eighteenth-century economy. Through the combined analysis of advice literature, parliamentary debates and satire, it explored the intertwined nature of the social and the economic.
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