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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Enlightenment

Margaret K. Powell, Joseph Roach (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-3207-4 (ISBN)

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The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the period. They, in turn, created a new range of hair-care products and a new literature of hair-care advice, ranging from hairstyles to hygiene, thus enlarging the market and further stimulating consumption.

A Cultural History of Hair in the Enlightenment offers a record of their marketing success, mindful that the ultimate product of this culture of consumption was the consumer. Literary and visual arts celebrated the ambitious têtes and coifs of the period, but they also lampooned and caricatured the most fashionable in society. By exploring paintings, prints, plays, poems, novels, treatises, and advice manuals, the contributors to this volume show how hair in this period expanded beyond the fashionable and the superstitious, and became newly understood as material, inspiring empirical research and powering applications such as in the woolen goods industry.

The essays in this volume—covering Religion and Ritualized Belief, Self and Society, Fashion and Adornment, Production and Practice, Health and Hygiene, Gender and Sexuality, Race and Ethnicity, Class and Social Status, and Cultural Representations—explore hair’s many meanings and its importance during the Enlightenment period.

Margaret K. Powell is the former W.S. Lewis Librarian and Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, USA. Joseph Roach is Sterling Professor of Theater at Yale University, USA.

List of Illustrations
General Editor's Preface
Introduction
Margaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach
1. Religion and Ritualized Belief
Evangelical Hair - Julia Fawcett
2. Self and Society
Women Wearing Wigs: A Short History of a Long Eighteenth-Century Problem - Julia Fawcett
3. Fashion and Adornment
Lynn Festa
4. Production and Practice
Sean Silver
5. Health and Hygiene
Margaret K. Powell and Joseph Roach
6. Gender and Sexuality
“Hairs Less in Sight”: Some Vibrant Ideas of Gender, 1714-1795 - Jayne Lewis
7. Race and Ethnicity
Mortal Coils & Hair-Raising Revolutions: Styling ‘Race’ in the Age of Enlightenment - Heather V. Vermeulen
8. Class and Social Status
Hair and Social Boundaries - Manushag N. Powell
9. Cultural Representations
Hairstory - Crystal B. Lake
Notes
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.01.2021
Reihe/Serie	The Cultural Histories Series
Zusatzinfo	75 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-4742-3207-8 / 1474232078
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-3207-4 / 9781474232074
Zustand	Neuware