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Author:

Withey, Alun, author.

Title:

Technology, self-fashioning and politeness in eighteenth-century Britain : refined bodies / Alun Withey.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

x, 162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Body image--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Beauty, Personal--Great Britain--History--History--18th century.
Human body--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Hygiene--History--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Etiquette--Great Britain--History--18th century.
Surgical instruments and apparatus--Great Britain--History--18th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : Framing the enlightened body.--Shaping the body : the politics of posture.--Shaving and masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.--Managing the body : the material culture of personal grooming.--New ways of seeing : sight, spectacles and self-fashioning.--Coda : surgical instruments and bodily transformation.--Conclusion : (re)constructing the Eighteenth-Century body.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

ISBN:

9781137467478
1137467479

OCLC:

(OCoLC)925397795

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)