Studies in Eighteenth-century Culture: Volume 26Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 - 344 pagina's This collection of 16 essays offers an insight into the texts and contexts of 18th-century culture in America, Britain and Europe. Topics covered include: pastoralism; Augustanism; the aesthetic; hysteria; female alienation; German Enlightenment; knowledge; charity; and Gothicism. |
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Pagina 36
... Beauty , and Arti- fice . This chain reinforces connections expressed elsewhere , for when it lurked unseen in the flowers , the serpent could be taken as a rhetorical figure for beauty's danger . In 1783 the lurking serpent appeared in ...
... Beauty , and Arti- fice . This chain reinforces connections expressed elsewhere , for when it lurked unseen in the flowers , the serpent could be taken as a rhetorical figure for beauty's danger . In 1783 the lurking serpent appeared in ...
Pagina 43
... beauty . For women , signifying beauty becomes problematic in a culture for which beauty ( or beauty as signifier of reproductive capacity ) defines woman's value and use . Eigh- teenth - century France was such a culture . To signify ...
... beauty . For women , signifying beauty becomes problematic in a culture for which beauty ( or beauty as signifier of reproductive capacity ) defines woman's value and use . Eigh- teenth - century France was such a culture . To signify ...
Pagina 45
... beauty since man is also the perceiver and recreater of beauty ; and second , beauty is a positive sign for the nobility of the human body , which is here signaled by the body's outline and not by the male sexual organ . Both of these ...
... beauty since man is also the perceiver and recreater of beauty ; and second , beauty is a positive sign for the nobility of the human body , which is here signaled by the body's outline and not by the male sexual organ . Both of these ...
Inhoudsopgave
Pastoralism | 7 |
PaintedPennedPurloined | 29 |
Opposition Augustanism and Popes Epistle to Augustus | 57 |
Copyright | |
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