• Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: a feminist literary history
    [NT 47261] Author: SnookEdith.,
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Basingstoke New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (x, 230 p.)ill. :
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women - Intellectual life. - England -
    [NT 47266] Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM - European -
    [NT 47266] Subject: SOCIAL SCIENCE - Women's Studies. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: HISTORY - Modern -
    [NT 47266] Subject: English literature - History and criticism. - Early modern, 1500-1700 -
    [NT 47266] Subject: English literature - Women authors -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Beauty, Personal, in literature. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Women in literature. -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230302235
    [NT 47265] Notes: Description based on print version record.
    [NT 51398] Summary: "Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals"--
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780230302235electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0230302238electronic bk.
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Machine generated contents note: Introduction PART ONE: COSMETICS 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England 'Soveraigne Receipts, ' Fair Beauty, and Race in Stuart England PART TWO: CLOTHES The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady Harley PART THREE: HAIR The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity' An 'absolute mistress of her self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair Conclusion Index.
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