{"product_id":"designing-women-tita-chico-9781684484799","title":"Designing Women: The Dressing Room in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Culture","description":"Dressing rooms, introduced into English domestic architecture during the seventeenth century, provided elite women with unprecedented private space at home and in so doing, promised them equally unprecedented autonomy by providing a space for self-fashioning, eroticism, and contemplation. Tita Chico's \u003ci\u003eDesigning Women \u003c\/i\u003eargues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. While satirists--such as Dryden, Fran輟is Bruys, Gay, Wortley Montagu, John Breval, Elizabeth Thomas, Pope, and Swift--attack the lady's dressing room as a site of individual and social degradation, domestic novelists--including Richardson, Lennox, Burney, Goldsmith, Austen, and Edgeworth--celebrate it as a space for moral, social, and personal amelioration. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As a symbol of both progressive and retrograde versions of femininity, the dressing room trope in eighteenth-century literature redefines the gendered constitution of private spaces, and offers a corrective to our literary history of generic influence and development between satire and the novel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tita Chico\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1684484790\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781684484799\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bucknell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/14\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d","brand":"Tita Chico","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44071164182783,"sku":"9781684484799","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a0dfada-8a4d-49a1-a07f-5fd62f8976ac.jpg?v=1685434522","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/designing-women-tita-chico-9781684484799","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}