Edith Snook

Broschiertes Buch

Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England

A Feminist Literary History

Beschreibung

Divided into three sections on cosmetics, clothes and hairstyling, this book explores how early modern women regarded beauty culture and in what ways skin, clothes and hair could be used to represent racial, class and gender identities, and to convey political, religious and philosophical ideals.

Autor

EDITH SNOOK Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of New Brunswick, Canada. She is the author of Women, Reading and the Cultural Politics of Early Modern England(2005) and has contributed a chapter to the Palgrave volume The History of Women's Writing 1500-1610.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK / Palgrave Macmillan
• 2011 edition
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781349328659
• ISBN-10: 1349328650
• Artikelnr.: 45756170

Rezensionen

'A masterful, eloquent, and convincing interpretation of the early modern culture of beauty which has vast implications for myriad areas of critical and historical interest beyond this topic alone.' - Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, UK

"Women, Beauty and Power: A Feminist Literary History is a significant and valuable intervention in the ongoing discussion of the construction and interpretation of female beauty in the early modern period. ... It is an important book." (Heather Campbell, Renaissance and Reformation, Vol. 42 (3), 2019)

"A masterful, eloquent, and convincing interpretation of the early modern culture of beauty which has vast implications for myriad areas of critical and historical interest beyond this topic alone." Patricia Phillippy, Kingston University, UK

"Snook's careful and lucid account of early modern women and their beauty practices, and how they variously intersect with hierarchies of power, will be of interest to scholars of early modern women's writing, material culture, and the history of beauty, and it isto be commended for its timely re-orienting of the subject towards texts produced by women." Emily O'Brien, Early Modern Studies Journal