Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century /

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century / / ed. by Tiffany Potter.

In contemporary pop culture, the pursuits regarded as the most frivolous are typically understood to be more feminine in nature than masculine. This collection illustrates how ideas of the popular and the feminine were assumed to be equally naturally intertwined in the eighteenth century, and the wa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Backscheider, Paula,
Bowden, Martha F.,
Chadwick, Mary,
Chalus, Elaine,
Erwin, Timothy,
Grogan, Claire,
Grundy, Isobel,
Joncus, Berta,
Luhning, Holly,
Macdonald, Andrew,
Macdonald, Gina,
Merrett, Robert James,
Munns, Jessica,
Potter, Tiffany,
Sabor, Peter,
Wagner, Tamara S.,
Wallace, Elizabeth Kowaleski,
HerausgeberIn:
Potter, Tiffany,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2012
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.) :; 17 illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Editor's Preface
  • Part I: Performance, Fashion, and the Politics of the Popular
  • 1. Historicizing the Popular and the Feminine: The Rape of the Lock and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
  • 2. 'The Assemblage of every female Folly': Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive, and the Genesis of Ballad Opera
  • 3. Politics and Gender in a Tale of Two Plays
  • 4. Celebrity Status: The Eighteenth- Century Actress as Fashion Icon
  • 5. Fanning the Flames: Women, Fashion, and Politics
  • PART II: Women, Reading, and Writing
  • 6. The Culinary Art of Eighteenth-Century Women Cookbook Authors
  • 7. Women and Letters
  • 8. Writing Bodies in Popular Culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in Excess
  • 9. Women Reading and Writing for The Rambler
  • 10. 'The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime
  • 11. Comic Prints, the Picturesque, and Fashion: Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
  • PART III: Eighteenth-Century Women in Modern Popular Culture
  • 12. Mother and Daughter in Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney
  • 13. The Agency of Things in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin
  • 14. 'Would you have us laughed out of Bath?': Shopping Around for Fashion and Fashionable Fiction in Jane Austen Adaptations
  • 15. Visualizing Empire in Domestic Settings: Designing Persuasion for the Screen
  • 16. From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and Back Again: Reading Television Reading Novels
  • Contributors
  • Index

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