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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... literary culture . CHAPTER SUMMARIES In part I , " Metaphor , Theory , and History , " I position the dressing room trope within historical and theoretical debates about private life and consumerism and then propose a materialist ...
... literary culture . CHAPTER SUMMARIES In part I , " Metaphor , Theory , and History , " I position the dressing room trope within historical and theoretical debates about private life and consumerism and then propose a materialist ...
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... literary texts ( making it more common figuratively than literally ) , demands that we investigate the particular protocols of each mode of representation and the extent to which they not only corroborate but also diverge from one ...
... literary texts ( making it more common figuratively than literally ) , demands that we investigate the particular protocols of each mode of representation and the extent to which they not only corroborate but also diverge from one ...
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... literary texts can be found in the practice of reading ; as William B. Warner reminds us , " the relative cheapness ... literary texts . His- tory tells us that only wealthy women had dressing rooms , but literature extends this ...
... literary texts can be found in the practice of reading ; as William B. Warner reminds us , " the relative cheapness ... literary texts . His- tory tells us that only wealthy women had dressing rooms , but literature extends this ...
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The Dressing Room Unlockd | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of | 25 |
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