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Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history
\"Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what waysskin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history
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.
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A cultural history of hair
How have our attitudes to hair changed over time? In what ways have new technologies influenced hair-related practices and beliefs? Is hair just about fashion or does it express social, spiritual, and cultural meanings? In a work that spans nearly 3,000 years these ambitious questions are addressed by 60 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate trends and nuances of the culture of hair in Western societies from ancient times to the present. Volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make the set as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the reader the choice to gain an overview of a period by reading one volume, or to follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume.
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The Recipes of Jonathan Odell and 18th-Century Settler Colonialism in the Maritimes
Snook focuses on the recipes of Jonathan Odell and 18th-century settler colonialism in the Maritimes. From print and manuscript sources, largely in English with a few in Latin, German, and French, the 18th-century settler recipes that survive in archives in New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Nova Scotia are mostly the work of Loyalist men writing in the later decades of the century. The author specifically focuses on Odell's six recipes recorded in an 18th-century commonplace book where five medical recipes and one for ink have been copied alongside verse fragments, epigrams, and poems and a recipe for Indian Chocolate Odell sent by letter in 1816 to Ward Chipman, the solicitor general of New Brunswick.
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Beautiful Hair, Health, and Privilege in Early Modern England
This essay explores medical and literary representations of naturally beautiful heads of hair in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. It argues that hair ideals for both beauty and health conformed to a particular, narrow aesthetic. Tied to the veneration of physical and psychological temperance, social acceptance, gender hierarchy, and geography, English hair ideals established a privileged physiology even before the explicit development of pejorative representations of non-European hair in the eighteenth century. This essay demonstrates the crucial importance of texture, curl, and abundance of hair to beauty ideals and shows how these ideals embodied social values. It contends that hair should have a more substantial place, alongside skin color, in thinking about early modern race.
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Recent Studies in Early Modern Reading
This essay surveys selected scholarship of early modern reading from 1971 through early 2012 by both literary scholars and historians. It includes studies of reading literacy, as well as examinations of the practices and implications of reading religious, historical, literary, practical, and scientific texts in print and manuscript cultures in early modern England. The bibliography includes work that approaches historical reading practices and male and female readers both through the representation of reading in literary texts and through the archive of reading created by marginalia, commonplace books, inventories, and other handwritten documents. The political dynamics of reading have merited substantial attention, as have its more private, subjective, and physiological outcomes. (E. S.)
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“The Beautifying Part of Physic”: Women’s Cosmetic Practices in Early Modern England
Previous scholarship has approached women’s cosmetic practices through the lens provided by misogynist anti–painting satire, with a narrow focus on face painting. Beginning instead with the evidence of women’s manuscript recipe collections, this article argues that cosmetics were part of, and not only antagonistic to, early modern medicine. These manuscripts illustrate a category of knowledge called beautifying physic, evident too in men’s medical receipt collections and herbals. Even cosmetics containing mercury and lead—the ingredients scholars and polemicists alike highlighted as evidence of women’s repudiation of their own health—could be aligned with physic and natural philosophy. Although cosmetics are not without their political vexations, when medicine was a part of women’s household activities, as it was in early modern England, beautifying physic was a domain of knowledge in which women could exercise care for their health, reason in their experiments, and expertise in practices more typically reserved for men.
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Jane Grey, 'Manful' Combat, and the Female Reader in Early Modern England
Cet essai considère Jane Grey et les idéaux de la lecture féminine au début des temps modernes. À travers trois avenues de recherche, cet essai met en lumière l'influence de l'idéologie politique sur les pratiques de lecture de Jane Grey et sur l'émergence historique de la lecture féminine. L'essai examine d'abord la fonction de la lecture de la Bible dans des recueils, circulant en imprimés ou en manuscrits, et que Jane a créée peu avant sa mort. L'essai étudie ensuite la publication des textes de Jane Grey par des penseurs importants de la Réforme, tels que John Foxe et Miles Coverdale, qui sont également intéressés à son statut en tant que lectrice et acceptent à la fois son modèle de lectrice et sa féminité militante. Enfin, l'essai considère la représentation de Jane Grey en tant que lectrice dans des récits littéraires du début des temps modernes, dans lesquels Jane n'apparaît pas comme une militante du Christ mais en tant qu'épouse dévote, lectrice conventionnelle et émotive, ou en tant que femme instruite. L'essai montre ainsi que la formation de lectrice de Jane Grey est de nature politique, structurée par une série d'idées concernant l'église nationale, le statut de la femme, et les lois de succession héréditaire. C'est en réexaminant son oeuvre et sa réception que nous pouvons comprendre dans quelle mesure l'idéologie politique avait un impact sur la nature de la lecture féminine dans l'Angleterre du début des temps modernes.
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