Edith Snook
Palgrave Macmillan UK
e druk, 2016
9781349328659
Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England
A Feminist Literary History
Specificaties
Paperback, blz.
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Engels
Palgrave Macmillan UK |
e druk, 2016
ISBN13: 9781349328659
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 8 werkdagen
Samenvatting
Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.
Specificaties
ISBN13:9781349328659
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:paperback
Uitgever:Palgrave Macmillan UK
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction PART ONE: COSMETICS 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England 'Soveraigne Receipts,' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England PART TWO: CLOTHES The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley PART THREE: HAIR The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair Conclusion Index