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Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England : A Feminist Literary History /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Snook, Edith (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Subjects:
Social Sciences.
British and Irish Literature.
Cultural Studies.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Early Modern Europe.
Modern History.
Poetry and Poetics.
British literature.
Culture > Study and teaching.
History, Modern.
Literature, Modern.
Poetry.
Popular culture > Study and teaching.
Social sciences.
Europe > History-1492-
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary: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.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 230 pages)
ISBN:9780230302235
DOI:10.1057/9780230302235