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DESIGNING WOMEN
THE DRESSING ROOM IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE |
| By: |
Tita Chico |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£65.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1611482232 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781611482232 |
| Publisher: |
BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2005 |
| Series: |
Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture |
| Pages: |
302 |
| Description: |
Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, embodies contradictory connotations, for it is linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman''s closet. |
| Synopsis: |
Drawing on extensive archival research, Chico argues that the dressing room, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, embodies contradictory connotations, for it is linked to the eroticism and theatricality of the playhouse tiring-room as well as to the learning and privilege of the gentleman's closet. As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, Designing Women clearly establishes the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature as redefining the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel: once the satirist shows the way into the lady's dressing room, the eighteenth-century novelist never stops looking. |
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