04191nam 22008775 450 991025835510332120240506170659.0978113746749211374674959781137467485113746748710.1057/9781137467485(CKB)3710000000607557(SSID)ssj0001674823(PQKBManifestationID)16477780(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001674823(PQKBWorkID)15017262(PQKB)10555586(DE-He213)978-1-137-46748-5(MiAaPQ)EBC5182430(MiAaPQ)EBC4965070(Au-PeEL)EBL4965070(CaONFJC)MIL877053(OCoLC)930992938(PPN)222231475(Perlego)3487947(EXLCZ)99371000000060755720171209d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrTechnology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain Refined Bodies /by A. Withey1st ed. 2016.London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :Imprint: Palgrave Pivot,2016.1 online resource (140 p.) Palgrave pivotBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349691357 1349691356 9781137467478 1137467479 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Framing the Enlightened Body -- 1 Shaping the Body: The Politics of Posture -- 2 Shaving and Masculinity in Eighteenth- Century Britain -- 3 Managing the Body: The Material Culture of Personal Grooming -- 4 New Ways of Seeing: Sight, Spectacles and Self-Fashioning -- Coda: Surgical Instruments and Bodily Transformation -- Conclusion: (Re)constructing the Eighteenth- Century Body -- Select Bibliography -- Index.The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were projected onto the body, with emphasis laid upon neatness, elegance and a 'natural' body shape. Deformities were to be concealed, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.Palgrave pivot.CivilizationHistoryScienceHistoryGreat BritainHistoryHistory, ModernSocial historyCultural HistoryHistory of ScienceHistory of Britain and IrelandModern HistorySocial HistoryCivilizationHistory.ScienceHistory.Great BritainHistory.History, Modern.Social history.Cultural History.History of Science.History of Britain and Ireland.Modern History.Social History.306.09Withey Aauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut878614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910258355103321Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain1961581UNINA