Contents: Introduction: the uses of excess, Julia Skelly; All that glitters: diamonds and constructions of nabobery in British portraits, 1600-1800, Romita Ray; ‘Every other place it could be placed with advantage’: ladies -in-waiting at the British court and the ‘excessive’ display of ceramics as art objects, 1689-1740, Eric Weichel; Consuming excess: pronk poppenhuisen and the dollhouses of Sara Rothé van Amstel, Michelle Moseley-Christian; Excess, fetish, exotic: the profusion and confusion of virtual things in Victorian painting, Julie F. Codell; Excess on the walls: Victorian exhibition culture and the anxieties of art and commerce, Anne Helmreich; The paradox of excess: Oscar Wilde, caricature, and consumption, Julia Skelly; Toronto’s Casa Loma: from nostalgia to glamour and back again, Alla Myzelev; homosexuality/modernism/nationalism: between excess and exile in 1920s Europe, John Potvin; Excesses of the bawdy body: John Wentworth Russell and his modern girls, 1927-1935, Karen Stanworth; For the love of God: excess, ambivalence, and Damien Hirst’s diamond skull, Jeremy Biles; ‘Your asshole is hanging outside of your body?’: excess, AIDS, and shame in the theater of Sky Gilbert, Dirk Gindt.

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