Outward Appearances - The Female Exterior in Restoration London

This book elucidates early modern attitudes toward women's public display. It is a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from 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). An academic study, Outward Appearances is written in a clear and engaging style. It is aimed particularly at literary scholars, but historians will take a keen interest in it as well. It offers a fresh context for the study of Restoration drama and a provocative argument about women and public space.

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By Will Pritchard

Product details

• Authors: Will Pritchard
• Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781611482898
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-289-8
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 168 mm x 244 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 576 g
• Series: Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture; Bucknell Studies 18th C L; Bucknell Studies in Eighteenth
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies