Designing women: the dressing room in eighteenth-century english literature and culture
Auteur :
Chico, Tita
Éditeur :
Bucknell University Press,U.S.
ISBN :
9781684484799
Date de publication :
14 juil. 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
399 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Argues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature redefines the gendered constitution of private spaces.