Author: Auguste CaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Lady's Toilette
Author: Auguste CaronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beauty, Personal
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Clean Body
Author: Peter WardPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228000637
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean? The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene revolution. In the age of Louis XIV bathing was rare and hygiene was mainly a matter of wearing clean underclothes. By the late twentieth century frequent - often daily - bathing had become the norm and wearing freshly laundered clothing the general practice. Cleanliness, once simply a requirement for good health, became an essential element of beauty. Beneath this transformation lay a sea change in understandings, motives, ideologies, technologies, and practices, all of which shaped popular habits over time. Peter Ward explains that what began as an urban bourgeois phenomenon in the later eighteenth century became a universal condition by the end of the twentieth, touching young and old, rich and poor, city dwellers and country residents alike. Based on a wealth of sources in English, French, German, and Italian, The Clean Body surveys the great hygienic transformation that took place across Europe and North America over the course of four centuries.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: ... Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Or Monthly Political and Literary Censor
Author: Before Victoria
Author: Elizabeth DenlingerPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231509936
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
It might not have the been the revolution that Mary Wollstonecraft called for in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), but the Romantic era did witness a dramatic change in women's lives. Combining literary and cultural history, this richly illustrated volume brings back to life a remarkable, though frequently overlooked, group of women who transformed British culture and inspired new ways of understanding feminine roles and female sexuality. What was this revolution like? Women were expected to be more moral, more constrained, and more private than in the eighteenth century, when women such as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire crafted bold public personas. Genteel women no longer laughed aloud at bawdy jokes and noblewomen ran charity bazaars instead of private casinos. By 1800, motherhood had become a sacred calling and women who could afford to do so devoted themselves to the home. While this idealization of domesticity kept some women off the streets, it afforded others new opportunities. Often working from home, women wrote novels and poetry, sculpted busts, painted portraits, and conducted scientific research. They also seized the chance to do good, and crafted new public roles for themselves as philanthropists and reformers. Now-obscure female astronomers, photographers, sculptors, and mathematicians share these pages with celebrated writers such as Mary Shelley, her mother Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Robinson, who in addition to being a novelist and actress was also the mistress of the Prince of Wales. This book also makes full use of The New York Public Library's extensive collections, including graphic works and caricatures from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, manuscripts, hand-colored illustrations, broadsides, drawings, oil paintings, notebooks, albums and early photographs. These vivid, beautiful, and often humorous images depict these women, their works, and their social and domestic worlds.
The Anti-Jacobin Review and Protestant Advocate
Author: The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine; Or, Monthly Political and Literary Censor [ed. by J.R. Green].
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Author: John Richards GreenSatirist
Author: George MannersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals, English
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description