Name: Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture
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Author: Chico, Tita
ISBN: 9781684484799

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Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture

Type

Physical Book

Author

Tita Chico

Publisher

Bucknell University Press

Language

English

Pages

302

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

22.6 x 15.0 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.40 kg.

ISBN13

9781684484799

Synopsis "Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture"

Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them 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. While satirists--such as Dryden, François Bruys, Gay, Wortley Montagu, John Breval, Elizabeth Thomas, Pope, and Swift--attack the lady's dressing room as a site of individual and social degradation, domestic novelists--including Richardson, Lennox, Burney, Goldsmith, Austen, and Edgeworth--celebrate it as a space for moral, social, and personal amelioration. As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature redefines the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel.

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