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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 Designing Women argues that the dressing room becomes a powerful metaphor in late seventeenth- and eighteenth-century literature. While satirists—such as Dryden, François 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.
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.
Contents
Preface
The Dressing Room Unlock'd
Acknowledgments
Part I: Metaphor, Theory, and History
Chapter 1
Women's Private Parts: The Politics and Aesthetics of the Dressing Room
Chapter 2
''The Art of Knowing Women'': A History of the Dressing Room
Part II: Satire, Art, and Epistemology
Chapter 3
''A painted woman is a dang'rous thing'': Dressing Rooms and the Satiric Mode
Chapter 4
The Arts of Beauty: Women's Cosmetics and Pope's Ekphrasis
Chapter 5
The Epistemology of the Dressing Room: Experimentation and Swift
Part III: Domestic Novels, Education, and Motherhood
Chapter 6
Richardson's Closet Novels: Virtue, Education, and the Genres of Privacy
Chapter 7
From Maiden to Mother: Dressing Rooms and the Domestic Novel
Coda
Vanity Knows No Limits in a Woman's Dressing Room''
Notes
Bibliography
Index
