Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-century English Literature and CultureBucknell University Press, 2005 - 302 pagina's Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century provided elite women with imprecedented private space at home and in so doing promised them an equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism and contemplation. Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature for both progressive and conservative satirists and novelists. These writers use the trope to represent competing notions of women's independence and their objectification indicating that the dressing room occupies a central (if neglected) place in the history of private life, postmodern theories of the closet and the development of literary forms. |
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The Dressing Room Unlockd | 9 |
Acknowledgments | 19 |
The Politics and Aesthetics of | 25 |
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