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Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain (eBook)

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2015 | 1st ed. 2015
X, 162 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
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Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain - A. Withey
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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, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.

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.


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, whilst bodily surfaces were managed to convey a harmonious whole. A large number of 'technologies of the body' were involved in this process, including wooden legs, elastic trusses, and even wigs. But the introduction of a new type of steel - cast steel - around 1750, offered new material possibilities for shaping the body. The physical properties of steel transformed the design and function of many instruments, from postural devices to spectacles, and even the smallest daily items of toilette. By no means was steel the only material involved in transforming the body. Neither did it simply sweep away all that had gone before. But, as an 'enlightened metal', cast steel was a key material in the refinement of the body.

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.

Introduction: Framing the Enlightened Body1. Shaping the Body: The politics of posture2. Shaving and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain3. Managing the Body: The material culture of personal grooming4. New Ways of Seeing: sight, spectacles and self-fashioning5. Surgical Instruments and Bodily TransformationConclusion: (RE)constructing the Eighteenth-Century Body?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 3.12.2015
Zusatzinfo 140 p.
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte Deformity • Disability • Eighteenth Century • Eighteenth-Century • Enlightenment • Gender • Masculinity • personal grooming • Politeness • razors • scientific instruments • self-fashioning • shaving • spectacles • steel • Technology • the body • Toilette
ISBN-10 1-137-46748-7 / 1137467487
ISBN-13 978-1-137-46748-5 / 9781137467485
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