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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... classical hero.58 As Pope writes in the preface to the Iliad , he “ hope [ s ] to pass some of those Years of Youth that are generally lost in a Circle of Follies , after a man- ner neither wholly unuseful to others , nor disagreeable ...
... classical hero.58 As Pope writes in the preface to the Iliad , he “ hope [ s ] to pass some of those Years of Youth that are generally lost in a Circle of Follies , after a man- ner neither wholly unuseful to others , nor disagreeable ...
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... classical learning by quoting Juve- nal XV ( 218-19 ) . In the will she drafts in her lodgings above Mr. Smith's glove shop in London , Clarissa bequeaths this library to her cousin Dolly Hervey with the observation that they are " not ...
... classical learning by quoting Juve- nal XV ( 218-19 ) . In the will she drafts in her lodgings above Mr. Smith's glove shop in London , Clarissa bequeaths this library to her cousin Dolly Hervey with the observation that they are " not ...
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... Classical Learning ( London and New York : Routledge , 1993 ) . 57. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope , 1 : 114 , 25 January 1710/11 . 58. Edward Young , " Conjectures on Original Composition , " in The Complete Works , ed . James ...
... Classical Learning ( London and New York : Routledge , 1993 ) . 57. The Correspondence of Alexander Pope , 1 : 114 , 25 January 1710/11 . 58. Edward Young , " Conjectures on Original Composition , " in The Complete Works , ed . James ...
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The Dressing Room Unlockd | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of | 25 |
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