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Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies de A. Withey

Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies

Autor A. Withey
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 dec 2015
The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were projected onto the body, with emphasis laid upon neatness, elegance and a 'natural' body shape. Deformities were to be concealed, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781137467478
ISBN-10: 1137467479
Pagini: 172
Ilustrații: X, 162 p.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2015
Editura: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Framing the Enlightened Body
1. Shaping the Body: The politics of posture
2. Shaving and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
3. Managing the Body: The material culture of personal grooming
4. New Ways of Seeing: sight, spectacles and self-fashioning
5. Surgical Instruments and Bodily Transformation
Conclusion: (RE)constructing the Eighteenth-Century Body
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Recenzii

“Divided into seven short chapters, Withey’s book … functions as a valuable introduction to the study of the intersection of consumer culture, new industrial processes (particularly the production of ‘cast’ or ‘crucible’ steel) and the cultivation of what Withey terms the ‘purposeful management of the body during the Enlightenment’. … Technology, Self-fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-century Britain is a very readable and useful work of cultural history.” (Jonathan Sawday, Social History of Medicine, Vol. 30 (1), February, 2017)

Notă biografică

Alun Withey is a historian of medicine and the body, and a Wellcome Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Withey's work on the medical history of early modern Wales (2012) was awarded the EAHMH Book Prize in 2013. His current research project explores the health and hygiene history of facial hair in Britain c. 1700-1918.

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The second half of the eighteenth century brought important changes in attitudes towards shaping the body. New expectations of polite conduct, deportment and demeanour were projected onto the body, with emphasis laid upon neatness, elegance and a 'natural' body shape. Deformities were to be concealed, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.