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Women, beauty and power in early modern England : a feminist literary history / Edith Snook

Material Type Books
Publisher Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan
Year 2011
Language English
Size x, 230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm

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2F reading room : pbk 930.2/S 111501184
9780230282858

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Contents 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
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index
Authors *Snook, Edith
Subjects LCSH:English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
LCSH:English literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism  All Subject Search
LCSH:Beauty, Personal, in literature
LCSH:Women in literature
LCSH:Women -- England -- Intellectual life  All Subject Search
Classification LCC:PR113
DC22:820.9/928709031
ID 1000007855
ISBN 9781137503688

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