A Withey: 1 book

Book cover of Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain
by A. Withey
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 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,...
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