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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... seen in public and to display their decorative taste and style for the consumption of an intimate circle . This continuum of display is at the heart of William Congreve's satire of Lady Wishfort at her toilet in The Way of the World ...
... seen in public and to display their decorative taste and style for the consumption of an intimate circle . This continuum of display is at the heart of William Congreve's satire of Lady Wishfort at her toilet in The Way of the World ...
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... seen throughout this chapter , Richardson provocatively folds the trope of the dressing room into his novels , redefines the appro- priate form and context for satire , and privileges the educational poten- tial of women's privacy . But ...
... seen throughout this chapter , Richardson provocatively folds the trope of the dressing room into his novels , redefines the appro- priate form and context for satire , and privileges the educational poten- tial of women's privacy . But ...
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... seen in public : " Why , I can't see nobody without them : -only look at me , -I was never so bad off in my life before . Pardie , if I'd know'd as much , I'd have brought two or three sets with me : but I'd never a thought of such a ...
... seen in public : " Why , I can't see nobody without them : -only look at me , -I was never so bad off in my life before . Pardie , if I'd know'd as much , I'd have brought two or three sets with me : but I'd never a thought of such a ...
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The Dressing Room Unlockd | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of | 25 |
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