Women, popular culture, and the eighteenth century.
"Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture. They also assess how eighteenth-century women have been re-imagined in contemporary historical fiction, films, and television, from the works of award-winner Beryl Bainbridge to Darcymania and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. By reconsidering the cultural and social practices of eighteenth-century women, this fascinating volume reclaims the ostensibly trivial as a substantive cultural contribution." --publisher's website.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781442641815
- ISBN: 1442641819
- Physical Description: xx, 321 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto ; University of Toronto Press, c2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Contents note: pt. I Performance, Fashion, and the Politics of the Popular -- 1. Historicizing the Popular and the Feminine: The Rape of the Lock and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies / Tiffany Potter -- 2. `The Assemblage of every female Folly': Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive, and the Genesis of Ballad Opera / Berta Joncus -- 3. Politics and Gender in a Tale of Two Plays / Paula Backscheider -- 4. Celebrity Status: The Eighteenth-Century Actress as Fashion Icon / Jessica Munns -- 5. Fanning the Flames: Women, Fashion, and Politics / Elaine Chalus -- pt. II Women, Reading, and Writing -- 6. Culinary Art of Eighteenth-Century Women Cookbook Authors / Robert James Merrett -- 7. Women and Letters / Isobel Grundy -- 8. Writing Bodies in Popular Culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in Excess / Holly Luhning -- 9. Women Reading and Writing for The Rambler / Peter Sabor -- 10. `The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime / Mary Chadwick -- 11. Comic Prints, the Picturesque, and Fashion: Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey / Timothy Erwin -- pt. III Eighteenth-Century Women in Modern Popular Culture -- 12. Mother and Daughter in Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney / Martha F. Bowden -- 13. Agency of Things in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin / Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace -- 14. `Would you have us laughed out of Bath?': Shopping Around for Fashion and Fashionable Fiction in Jane Austen Adaptations / Tamara S. Wagner -- 15. Visualizing Empire in Domestic Settings: Designing Persuasion for the Screen / Gina Macdonald -- 16. From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and Back Again: Reading Television Reading Novels / Claire Grogan. |
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Subject: | Women > England > History > 18th century. Women in popular culture > England > History > 18th century. Popular culture > England > History > 18th century. England > Social life and customs > 18th century. England > Civilization > 18th century. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Cranbrook Campus | HQ 1593 .W46 2012 (Text) | 31111000104560 | CRANBROOK | Volume hold | Available | - | ||
Lansdowne Library | HQ 1599 E5 W623 2012 (Text) | 26040002986400 | Main Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |