Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1914

by Michelle Smith

Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through consumer culture. While beauty has often been approached in relation to aestheticism and the visual arts in this period, this monograph offers a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474470092
• ISBN13: 9781474470094
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"