American Beauty, الجزء 11;الجزء 13Knopf, 1983 - 369 من الصفحات "Drawing on memoirs, etiquette books, contemporary novels, and popular histories of the musical and theatrical stage, Lois W. Banner chronicles how women looked (and how they felt about how they looked) and how they wanted to look ... Here are the changing vogues ... American clothes as a revelation of sexual attitudes ... the shifting models of American beauty ... illustrated with 16 pages of photographs."--Jacket. |
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الصفحة 51
... tion of the steel - engraving ideal of beauty in women . The model woman of Samuel Richardson , apparent also in the writings of Goethe and Rousseau , reappeared in Romantic and Victorian authors . " She was a vision of de- light " to ...
... tion of the steel - engraving ideal of beauty in women . The model woman of Samuel Richardson , apparent also in the writings of Goethe and Rousseau , reappeared in Romantic and Victorian authors . " She was a vision of de- light " to ...
الصفحة 70
... tion plus economic growth and change produced a chaotic social situation . As nineteenth - century analysts realized , the fluid class structure of American society made aspiration universal and , at the same time , the draw- ing of ...
... tion plus economic growth and change produced a chaotic social situation . As nineteenth - century analysts realized , the fluid class structure of American society made aspiration universal and , at the same time , the draw- ing of ...
الصفحة 81
... tion the " minuet of love . " It took " grace and precision and a time of ease . " Behind it lay sentimentality and stealth . " It was words written on a cotil- lion card , a sleigh ride to Fraunces Tavern , a handkerchief cherished ...
... tion the " minuet of love . " It took " grace and precision and a time of ease . " Behind it lay sentimentality and stealth . " It was words written on a cotil- lion card , a sleigh ride to Fraunces Tavern , a handkerchief cherished ...
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The Fashionables | 17 |
The SteelEngraving Lady | 45 |
The Underside of Fashion | 66 |
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