Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England : a Feminist Literary History.

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snook, Dr Edith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > History and criticism > Early modern, 1500-1700.
Women > Books and reading > England > History > 16th century.
Women > Books and reading > England > History > 17th century.
English literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Women and literature > England > History > 16th century.
Women and literature > England > History > 17th century.
Women > England > Intellectual life.
Écrits de femmes anglais > Histoire et critique.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 16e siècle.
Femmes et littérature > Angleterre > Histoire > 17e siècle.
Femmes > Angleterre > Vie intellectuelle.
Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 > English > c 1500 to c 1600 > England.
Fashion & society > English > c 1500 to c 1600 > England.
Material culture > English > c 1500 to c 1600 > England.
Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 > English > c 1500 to c 1600 > England.
Literature.
English literature > Early modern
English literature > Women authors
Women and literature
Women > Books and reading
Women > Intellectual life
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; List of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 'Nature's Coin': The Traditions of Early Modern Beauty; Beauty's Practices: A Feminist Literary History; 'The Poetry of Women'; Part One: Cosmetics; 1 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England; 2 'Soveraigne Receipts', Fair Beauty and Race in Stuart England; Part Two: Clothes; 3 The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book (BL Add. MS 62092).
  • 4 What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady HarleyPart Three: Hair; 5 The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity'; 6 An 'absolute Mistris of her Self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair; Notes; Index.

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