Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century by Tiffany Potter


Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
Title : Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century
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ISBN : 1442641819
ISBN-10 : 9781442641815
Language : English
Format Type : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 344
Publication : First published June 30, 2012

In contemporary pop culture, the pursuits regarded as the most frivolous are typically understood to be more feminine in nature than masculine. This collection illustrates how ideas of the popular and the feminine were assumed to be equally naturally intertwined in the eighteenth century, and the ways in which that association facilitates the ongoing trivialization of both. Top scholars in eighteenth-century studies examine the significance of the parallel devaluations of women's culture and popular culture by looking at theatres and actresses; novels, magazines, and cookbooks; and populist politics, dress, and portraiture. They also assess how eighteenth-century women have been re-imagined in contemporary historical fiction, films, and television, from the works of award-winner Beryl Bainbridge to Darcymania and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies . By reconsidering the cultural and social practices of eighteenth-century women, this fascinating volume reclaims the ostensibly trivial as a substantive cultural contribution.

Women, Popular Culture, and the Eighteenth Century Reviews

  • Paula Phillips

    Do you have a fascination with History and the way Women were treated ? Ever wonder what life in the Eighteenth Century might have been like for you ? Do you love reading essays based on historical facts and figures ? Love the comparison of today's society with that of the past ?
    Author Tiffany Potter has collected and put together a number of Essays written to portray her views and that researched of what Women and Popular culture were like in the 18th century. Essays include "Historicising the Popular and the Feminime " this was written with the comparison of the two books The Rape of Lock and the ever popular Pride and Prejudice and Zombies - a book which is to be made as a film and of course what would a section on Women be without essays on Celebrity status - Icons of the Eighteenth Century and Fanning the Flames : Women, Fashion and Politics. Then onto my favourite chapter of the book - The Art of Reading and Writing , in this section they cover Women who wrote Culinary Cookbooks but my favourite was the essay written on one of my all-time favourite Jane Austen novels "Northanger Abbey", I loved the Gothic theme of the story. The essay is titled "Comic Prints, The Picturesque and Fashion, Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey". The next section was Eighteenth Century Women and Popular Culture. This featured a few essays based on Austen's work, reading essays on Jane Austen's tales was the one thing I found most fascinating about this book as to me Jane Austen was one of the main role models in today's society when Women think of the Eighteenth Century and as an avid reader and lover of books - Jane Austen is one of my heroines. I am a Austenite. We have 1) Would you have laughed us out of Bath ? Shopping around for fashionable fiction and fashion in Jane Austen Adaptations and 2) Visualising Empire in Domestic settings - Designing Persuasion for the screen and of course last but not least which would have had to be my all-time favourite Essay in the book as those who know me and also read my site will know that when it comes to Classic Renditions, I adore thee and Austen renditions are my speciality - the last essay was called From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and back again - Reading Television, Reading Novels.
    This is the perfect reference guide for all Women who love Jane Austen and who are History buffs of the Eighteenth Century.

  • Maria Grazia

    I read this book with a keen eye on whatever Austen it could offer. Released in July 2012, this is certainly not a quick, fun summer read for any Austen fan in search of escapism in a relaxing romance, but a thorough university tome which any true Janeite would love to own, proudly showcase on their Austen-studies shelf, and would bless each time they will be searching for information and details about the world their favourite author lived in. Many essays are not directly Austen-related and some of them refer to the society of the first half of the eighteenth century. Anyway, all of them are really interesting and highly accurate in describing a cultural and social reality which must have greatly influenced Jane Austen and her contemporaries.

    Read my complete review at My Jane Austen Book Club


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  • Mills College Library

    305.4094 W8725 2012