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Autore: |
Snook Edith
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Titolo: |
Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history / / Edith Snook
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Pubblicazione: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. 2011. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (241 p.) |
Disciplina: | 820.9/928709031 |
Soggetto topico: | English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism |
English literature - Women authors - History and criticism | |
Beauty, Personal, in literature | |
Women in literature | |
Women - England - Intellectual life | |
Classificazione: | LIT004120SOC028000HIS037090 |
18.05 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Machine generated contents note: -- 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | "Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what waysskin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals"-- |
Titolo autorizzato: | Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-06754-4 |
9786613067548 | |
0-230-30223-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910825697003321 |
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