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Book SynopsisTop 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.
Table of ContentsTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface I Performance, Fashion, and the Politics of the Popular 1 Historicizing the Popular and the Feminine: The Rape of the Lock and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Tiffany Potter, UBC) 2 'The Assemblage of every female Folly': Lavinia Fenton, Kitty Clive and the Genesis of Ballad Opera (Berta Joncus) 3 Politics and Gender in a Tale of Two Plays (Paula Backscheider) 4 Celebrity Status: The Eighteenth-Century Actress as Fashion Icon (Jessica Munns) 5 Fanning the Flames: Women and Politics (Elaine Chalus) II Women, Reading, and Writing 6 The Culinary Art of Eighteenth-Century Women Cookbook Authors (Robert James Merrett) 7 Women and Letters (Isobel Grundy) 8 Writing Bodies in Popular Culture: Eliza Haywood and Love in Excess (Holly Luhning) 9 Women Reading and Writing for The Rambler (Peter Sabor) 10 'The Most Dangerous Talent': Riddles as Feminine Pastime (Mary Chadwick) 11 Comic Prints, the Picturesque and Fashion: Seeing and Being Seen in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey (Timothy Erwin) III Eighteenth-Century Women in Modern Popular Culture 12 Mother and Daughter in Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney (Martha F. Bowden) 13 The Agency of Things in Emma Donoghue's Slammerkin (Elizabeth Kowaleski Wallace) 14 'Would you have us laughed out of Bath?': Shopping Around for Fashion and Fashionable Fiction in Jane Austen Adaptations (Tamara S. Wagner) 15 Visualizing Empire in Domestic Settings: Designing Persuasion for the Screen (Andrew Macdonald and Gina Macdonald) 16 From Pride and Prejudice to Lost in Austen and Back Again: Reading Television Reading Novels (Claire Grogan) Contributors Index
