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Outward appearances : the female exterior in Restoration London
- Title
- Outward appearances : the female exterior in Restoration London / Will Pritchard.
- Author
- Pritchard, Will, 1965-
- Publication
- Lewisburg : Bucknell University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- 266 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Outward Appearances: The Female Exterior in Restoration London elucidates early modern attitudes towards women's public display. Will Pritchard presents a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from the years 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade in the Strand). He offers a fresh context for the study of Restoration literature and a provocative argument about women and public space. An engaging academic study, Outward Appearances enhances and historicizes our understanding of the dynamics of gender and looking in the Restoration and will be appreciated by literary scholars, historians, and cultural theorists alike."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- The Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture
- Uniform Title
- Bucknell studies in eighteenth-century literature and culture.
- Subjects
- English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism
- Women > Public opinion > England > London > History > 17th century
- Women > Physiology
- Women in literature
- Men > Attitudes > England > London > History > 17th century
- Femininity in literature
- Body image in literature
- London (England) > Social life and customs > 17th century
- Public spaces in literature
- Note
- A cultural study of how men in Restoration London, view women through their outward physical appearances and through their increased appearances in public places. Based on literary and non-literary texts from the years 1650-1700.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 244-261) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : outward appearances -- 1. The problem of female legibility -- 2. The promise of female legibility -- 3. The playhouse -- 4. The park -- 5. The new exchange.
- ISBN
- 9780838756881 (alk. paper)
- 0838756883 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2007019225
- 40015053065
- OCLC
- 124538875
- ocn124538875
- SCSB-5388487
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries