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Consuming female beauty : British literature and periodicals, 1840-1914 / Michelle J. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Michelle J., 1979- author.
- Series:
- Gender and the body in literature and culture.
- Gender and the body in literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Popular literature--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Popular literature.
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 202 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through consumer culture. While beauty has often been approached in relation to aestheticism and the visual arts in this period, this monograph offers a new and significant focus on how beauty was reshaped in girls' and women's magazines, beauty manuals and fiction during the rise of consumer culture. These archival sources reveal important historical changes in how femininity was shaped and illuminate how contemporary ideas of female beauty, and the methods by which they are disseminated, originated in seismic shifts in 19th-century print culture.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I: Nature vs Artifice
- 1. The Impossible Ideal: Beauty, Health and Character
- 2. The Dark Side of Beauty: Cosmetics, Artifice and Danger
- Part II: Youth and Ageing
- 3. Beauty and Girlhood
- 4. Beauty and Ageing
- Part III: Reshaping Female Beauty
- 5 The Celebrity as Beauty Icon
- 6 Embracing the Beauty Regimen in British and American Women’s Magazines
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 22, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-7012-2
- 1-4744-7011-4
- OCLC:
- 1338021049
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