The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London

by Jessica P. Clark

Book Overview

The Business of Beauty is a unique exploration of the history of beauty, consumption, and business in Victorian and Edwardian London. Illuminating national and cultural contingencies specific to London as a global metropolis, it makes an important intervention by challenging the view of those who-like their historical contemporaries-perceive the 19th and early 20th centuries as devoid of beauty praxis, let alone a commercial beauty culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350098507
• ISBN13: 9781350098503
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.0"