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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... suggests that " the historical particulars in satire al- ways have a curious in - between status , neither wholly ... suggest that it facilitated 3 : " A PAINTED WOMAN IS A DANG'ROUS THING " 85.
... suggests that " the historical particulars in satire al- ways have a curious in - between status , neither wholly ... suggest that it facilitated 3 : " A PAINTED WOMAN IS A DANG'ROUS THING " 85.
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... suggests that this category of identity " runs the risk of being de - instituted at every interval . " 65 Richardson regularly places his heroines in danger to prove their vir- tue , but he is certainly not unique . Richard Allestree's ...
... suggests that this category of identity " runs the risk of being de - instituted at every interval . " 65 Richardson regularly places his heroines in danger to prove their vir- tue , but he is certainly not unique . Richard Allestree's ...
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... suggests that the formal and architectural technologies of privacy that Richard- son utilizes are at the core of the ... suggest that the satiric mode and the rise of the novel are not as dispa- rate literary phenomena as most literary ...
... suggests that the formal and architectural technologies of privacy that Richard- son utilizes are at the core of the ... suggest that the satiric mode and the rise of the novel are not as dispa- rate literary phenomena as most literary ...
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The Dressing Room Unlockd | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of | 25 |
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