Product Description: Women and Material Culture comprises twelve illustrated, interdisciplinary essays on gender and material culture across the long eighteenth century. Written by an international group of scholars working in the fields of visual culture, dress history and literary criticism, these essays point to the manifold ways in which gender mediated and was shaped by the consumption and production of goods (from clothing and artworks to books) and elucidate the complex, shifting relationships between material and social practice in the period...read more

Product Description: Book annotation not available for this title.Title: The Histories of Some of the Penitents in the Magdalen-HouseAuthor: Batchelor, Jennie (EDT)/ Hiatt, Megan (EDT)Publisher: Ashgate Pub CoPublication Date: 2006/12/20Number of Pages: 199Binding Type: HARDCOVERLibrary of Congress: 200740828...read more

Product Description: Dress, Distress and Desire explores representations of sartorial experience in eighteenth-century literature. Batchelor's study brings together for the first time canonical and non-canonical texts including novels, conduct books and women's magazines to investigate the pressures that the growth of the fashion market placed on conceptions of female virtue and propriety...read more