Consuming Female Beauty

British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914

By:

Michelle Smith

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Hardback

Series:

Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture

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Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through consumer culture. While beauty has often been approached in relation to aestheticism and the visual arts in this period, this monograph offers a new and significant focus on how beauty was reshaped in girls' and women's magazines, beauty manuals and fiction during the rise of consumer culture. These archival sources reveal important historical changes in how femininity was shaped and illuminate how contemporary ideas of female beauty, and the methods by which they are disseminated, originated in seismic shifts in nineteenth-century print culture.

Author Biography:

Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University.

Release date NZ

July 31st, 2022

Author

Michelle Smith

Series

Gender and the Body in Literature and Culture

Pages

224

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Illustrations

24 B/W illustrations 24 black and white illustrations

ISBN-13

9781474470094

Product ID

35878412

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