Fans, Petticoats, and Snuff Boxes: The Self-Promoting Power of Things in Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Authors

  • Bärbel Tischleder Frankfurt am Main/J. W. Goethe Universität/Institut für England- und Amerikastudien

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14766/327

Keywords:

Identität, Konsum, Literatur, Neuzeit, Nordeuropa und Großbritannien, Wissenschaftstheorie, Geschlecht, Gender

Abstract

Scholz examines how objects function as media for social self-fashioning in cultural practices of consumption, display and collecting. It is shown that the performative and literary staging of gender not only relies on the body, but also largely on things. In these terms, the book offers an important contribution to both gender and body theory.

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Published

2005-03-03

Issue

No. 15 (2005): Offenes Heft

Section

Offener Teil

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Copyright (c) 2005 Bärbel Tischleder

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