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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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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