A. Withey

Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Refined Bodies

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Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK / Palgrave Pivot / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-137-46747-8
• 1st ed. 2015
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 316g
• ISBN-13: 9781137467478
• ISBN-10: 1137467479
• Artikelnr.: 43892534

Autorenporträt

Alun Withey is a historian of medicine and the body, and a Wellcome Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Withey's work on the medical history of early modern Wales (2012) was awarded the EAHMH Book Prize in 2013. His current research project explores the health and hygiene history of facial hair in Britain c. 1700-1918.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Framing the Enlightened Body
1. Shaping the Body: The politics of posture
2. Shaving and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. Managing the Body: The material culture of personal grooming
4. New Ways of Seeing: sight, spectacles and self-fashioning
5. Surgical Instruments and Bodily Transformation
Conclusion: (RE)constructing the Eighteenth-Century Body
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Rezensionen

"Divided into seven short chapters, Withey's book ... functions as a valuable introduction to the study of the intersection of consumer culture, new industrial processes (particularly the production of 'cast' or 'crucible' steel) and the cultivation of what Withey terms the 'purposeful management of the body during the Enlightenment'. ... Technology, Self-fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain is a very readable and useful work of cultural history." (Jonathan Sawday, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 30 (1), February, 2017)