Title Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England : a Feminist Literary History

Published Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages) Contents Cover; List of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 'Nature's Coin': The Traditions of Early Modern Beauty; Beauty's Practices: A Feminist Literary History; 'The Poetry of Women'; Part One: Cosmetics; 1 'The Beautifying Part of Physic': Women's Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England; 2 'Soveraigne Receipts', Fair Beauty and Race in Stuart England; Part Two: Clothes; 3 The Greatness in Good Clothes: Fashioning Subjectivity in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Spencer's Account Book (BL Add. MS 62092) 4 What Not to Wear: Children's Clothes and the Maternal Advice of Elizabeth Jocelin and Brilliana, Lady HarleyPart Three: Hair; 5 The Culture of the Head: Hair in Mary Wroth's Urania and Margaret Cavendish's 'Assaulted and Pursued Chastity'; 6 An 'absolute Mistris of her Self': Anne Clifford and the Luxury of Hair; Notes; Index 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject English literature -- History and criticism -- Early modern, 1500-1700 Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 16th century Women -- Books and reading -- England -- History -- 17th century English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism Women and literature -- England -- History -- 16th century Women and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century Women -- England -- Intellectual life Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 -- English -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England. Fashion & society -- English -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England. Material culture -- English -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England. Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 -- English -- c 1500 to c 1600 -- England. Literature. English literature -- Early modern English literature -- Women authors Women and literature Women -- Books and reading Women -- Intellectual life England Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780230302235 0230302238

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