Technology, self-fashioning and politeness in eighteenth-century Britain : refined bodies / Alun Withey, Wellcome research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK.
Withey, Alun, author.
2016
RA776.98 .W58 2016
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Title Technology, self-fashioning and politeness in eighteenth-century Britain : refined bodies / Alun Withey, Wellcome research Fellow, University of Exeter, UK.
Author Withey, Alun, author.
ISBN 9781137467478
1137467479
9781137467485 (electronic book)
1137467487 (electronic book)
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Pivot, 2016.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 162 pages) : illustrations.
Call Number RA776.98 .W58 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 646.7094109/033
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-157) and index.
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Introduction : Framing the enlightened body.
Shaping the body : the politics of posture.
Shaving and masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Managing the body : the material culture of personal grooming.
New ways of seeing : sight, spectacles and self-fashioning.
Coda : surgical instruments and bodily transformation.
Conclusion : (re)constructing the Eighteenth-Century body.

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