Consuming Female Beauty : : British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914 / / Michelle Smith.
The first comprehensive account of female beauty in nineteenth-century British print cultureDraws on an extensive and diverse range of nineteenth- and early-twentieth century print materials, such as women’s magazines, beauty manuals, advertising and fiction, a significant proportion of which are ra...
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 24 B/W illustrations 24 black and white illustrations |
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Table of 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