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

Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781137467478)

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

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

$59.99
Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies by Withey, A.

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

$59.99
Format: Hardcover
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This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance.

Author: A. Withey
ISBN-10: 1137467479
ISBN-13: 9781137467478
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Language: English
Published: 12/03/2015
Pages: 162
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
By A. Withey
By A. Withey
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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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