Designing women : the dressing room in eighteenth-century English literature and culture
"Tita Chico's Designing Women argues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature for both progressive and conservative satirists and novelists. These writers use the trope to represent competing notions of women's independence and their objectification, indicating that the dressing room occupies a central (if neglected) place in the history of private life, postmodern theories of the closet, and the development of literary forms."
Criticism, interpretation, etc
302 pages ; 24 cm.
9780838756058, 9781611482232, 0838756050, 1611482232
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