Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and CultureBucknell University Press, 2005 - 302 páginas Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century provided elite women with imprecedented private space at home and in so doing promised them an equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature for both progressive and conservative satirists and novelists. These writers use the trope to represent competing notions of women's independence and their objectification indicating that the dressing room occupies a central (if neglected) place in the history of private life, postmodern theories of the closet and the development of literary forms. |
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... Dressing Room in Eighteenth- Century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico Dressing rooms , introduced into ... trope to represent competing notions of women's independence and their objectification , indicating that the dressing ...
... Dressing Room in Eighteenth- Century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico Dressing rooms , introduced into ... trope to represent competing notions of women's independence and their objectification , indicating that the dressing ...
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The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. tation , and epistemology ... trope and its associations with women's independence and objectification are woven into the fabric of eighteenth - century daily ...
The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. tation , and epistemology ... trope and its associations with women's independence and objectification are woven into the fabric of eighteenth - century daily ...
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... dressing room as a pedagogical space and use the trope to endorse women's education . In domestic novels , the dressing room becomes a transitional space through which heroines must pass in order to reach the conclusion of the female ...
... dressing room as a pedagogical space and use the trope to endorse women's education . In domestic novels , the dressing room becomes a transitional space through which heroines must pass in order to reach the conclusion of the female ...
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The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. we have one of " designing women ... trope to eighteenth - century literary culture . Chapter Summaries In part I , " Metaphor , Theory , and History , " I ...
The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. we have one of " designing women ... trope to eighteenth - century literary culture . Chapter Summaries In part I , " Metaphor , Theory , and History , " I ...
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The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. and eighteenth centuries . I argue ... trope includes the design and use of both domestic architecture and the playhouse tiring - room . The Restoration ...
The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and Culture Tita Chico. and eighteenth centuries . I argue ... trope includes the design and use of both domestic architecture and the playhouse tiring - room . The Restoration ...
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A painted woman is a dangrous thing Dressing Rooms and the Satiric Mode | 81 |
The Arts of Beauty Womens Cosmetics and Popes Ekphrasis | 107 |
The Epistemology of the Dressing Room Experimentation and Swift | 132 |
Richardsons Closet Novels Virtue Education and the Genres of Privacy | 159 |
From Maiden to Mother Dressing Rooms and the Domestic Novel | 192 |
Vanity Knows No Limits in a Womans Dressing Room | 231 |
Notes | 234 |
Bibliography | 270 |
Index | 291 |
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Página 125 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if Belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 37 - Their amusements seem contrived for them, rather as they are women than as they are reasonable creatures; and are more adapted to the sex than to the species. The toilet is their great scene of business, and the right adjusting of their hair the principal employment of their lives.
Página 36 - But there are none to whom this paper will be more useful than to the female world. I have often thought there has not been sufficient pains taken in finding out proper employments and diversions for the fair ones.
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Página 54 - Figarys," which was acted to-day. But, Lord ! to see how they were both painted would make a man mad, and did make me loath them ; and what base company of men comes among them, and how lewdly they talk ! and how poor the men are in clothes, and yet what a show they make on the stage by candle-light, is very observable.
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Página 51 - After dinner we walked to the King's playhouse, all in dirt, they being altering of the stage to make it wider. But God knows when they will begin to act again ; but my business here was to see the inside of the stage, and all the tiring-rooms and machines; and, indeed, it was a sight worthy seeing. But to see their clothes, and the various sorts, and what a mixture of things there was; here a wooden leg, there a ruff, here a hobby-horse, there a crown, would make a man split himself to see with...
Página 70 - I please; and choose conversation with regard only to my own taste; to have no obligation upon me to converse with wits that I don't like, because they are your acquaintance: or to be intimate with fools, because they may be your relations. Come to dinner when I please; dine in my dressing-room when I'm out of humour, without giving a reason.
Página 256 - For they perhaps by making it ridiculous, because it is new, and because they themselves are unwilling to take pains about it, may do it more injury than all the Arguments of our severe and frowning and dogmatical Adversaries.
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