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Informationen zum Autor Joseph Roach is Sterling Professor of Theater and Professor of English Emeritus at Yale University, USA. Klappentext The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the period. They, in turn, created a new range of hair-care products and a new literature of hair-care advice, ranging from hairstyles to hygiene, thus enlarging the market and further stimulating consumption. A Cultural History of Hair in the Enlightenment offers a record of their marketing success, mindful that the ultimate product of this culture of consumption was the consumer. Literary and visual arts celebrated the ambitious têtes and coifs of the period, but they also lampooned and caricatured the most fashionable in society. By exploring paintings, prints, plays, poems, novels, treatises, and advice manuals, the contributors to this volume show how hair in this period expanded beyond the fashionable and the superstitious, and became newly understood as material, inspiring empirical research and powering applications such as in the woolen goods industry.The essays in this volume-covering Religion and Ritualized Belief, Self and Society, Fashion and Adornment, Production and Practice, Health and Hygiene, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Social Status, and Cultural Representations-explore hair's many meanings and its importance during the Enlightenment period. Zusammenfassung The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the period. They, in turn, created a new range of hair-care products and a new literature of hair-care advice, ranging from hairstyles to hygiene, thus enlarging the market and further stimulating consumption. A Cultural History of Hair in the Enlightenment offers a record of their marketing success, mindful that the ultimate product of this culture of consumption was the consumer. Literary and visual arts celebrated the ambitious têtes and coifs of the period, but they also lampooned and caricatured the most fashionable in society. By exploring paintings, prints, plays, poems, novels, treatises, and advice manuals, the contributors to this volume show how hair in this period expanded beyond the fashionable and the superstitious, and became newly understood as material, inspiring empirical research and powering applications such as in the woolen goods industry.The essays in this volume—covering Religion and Ritualized Belief, Self and Society, Fashion and Adornment, Production and Practice, Health and Hygiene, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Social Status, and Cultural Representations—explore hair’s many meanings and its importance during the Enlightenment period. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsGeneral Editor's PrefaceIntroductionMargaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach1. Religion and Ritualized Belief Evangelical Hair - Julia Fawcett2. Self and SocietyWomen Wearing Wigs: A Short History of a Long Eighteenth-Century Problem - Julia Fawcett3. Fashion and AdornmentLynn Festa4. Production and PracticeSean Silver5. Health and HygieneMargaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach6. Gender and Sexuality“Hairs Less in Sight”: Some Vibrant Ideas of Gender, 1714-1795 - Jayne Lewis7. Race and EthnicityMortal Coils & Hair-Raising Revolutions: Styling ‘Race’ in the Age of Enlightenment - Heather V. Vermeulen8. Class and Social StatusHair and Social Boundaries ...
