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Pox'd whores and virginal fannies: Shifting representations of women's bodies and their effects on female satire in the eighteenth century.

Birgit Schmidt-Rosemann

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Description:In the two decades leading up to the mid-eighteenth century in Britain, an exploding print culture produced literary and visual depictions of women that reflect a radical change in popular perceptions of women's bodies, a change that affected how women of the period could use the satiric mode. In the popular culture of the early 1730s, sexually voracious women were figured as both symbol and scapegoat for excessive spending that threatened to lead to the collapse of a burgeoning economy. In this culture, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu uses the traditionally masculine mode of satire and appropriates the image of the sexually dominant woman in order to refocus the moral debates of her time on the weak male body, whose impotence she constructs as to blame for creating the image of the monstrous, sexual woman in the first place. Texts like John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Henry Fielding's The Female Husband reflect a change in popular cultural depictions of women that replaces the specter of sexually threatening femininity with an idealized image of naturally benevolent, sentimental femininity. This is the culture that Jane Collier confronts in the early 1750s. In her satire An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, Collier appropriates and exaggerates the manufactured image of acutely sensitive femininity in order to demonstrate how her culture's blind idealization of sentiment produces monstrous women that defeat her society's goals of nurturance, peace, and benevolence. The stylistic irony that pervades Collier's Essay ignores and resists the vilification of artful female wit and the demand for female sincerity that have by this time taken hold of the culture. Both Montagu and Collier play important roles in the history of women's satire: their satiric confrontation of popular images of women's bodies can be seen in modern female satirists like Margaret Cho, Tina Fey, and Kathy Griffin.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pox'd whores and virginal fannies: Shifting representations of women's bodies and their effects on female satire in the eighteenth century.. To get started finding Pox'd whores and virginal fannies: Shifting representations of women's bodies and their effects on female satire in the eighteenth century., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: In the two decades leading up to the mid-eighteenth century in Britain, an exploding print culture produced literary and visual depictions of women that reflect a radical change in popular perceptions of women's bodies, a change that affected how women of the period could use the satiric mode. In the popular culture of the early 1730s, sexually voracious women were figured as both symbol and scapegoat for excessive spending that threatened to lead to the collapse of a burgeoning economy. In this culture, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu uses the traditionally masculine mode of satire and appropriates the image of the sexually dominant woman in order to refocus the moral debates of her time on the weak male body, whose impotence she constructs as to blame for creating the image of the monstrous, sexual woman in the first place. Texts like John Cleland's Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure and Henry Fielding's The Female Husband reflect a change in popular cultural depictions of women that replaces the specter of sexually threatening femininity with an idealized image of naturally benevolent, sentimental femininity. This is the culture that Jane Collier confronts in the early 1750s. In her satire An Essay on the Art of Ingeniously Tormenting, Collier appropriates and exaggerates the manufactured image of acutely sensitive femininity in order to demonstrate how her culture's blind idealization of sentiment produces monstrous women that defeat her society's goals of nurturance, peace, and benevolence. The stylistic irony that pervades Collier's Essay ignores and resists the vilification of artful female wit and the demand for female sincerity that have by this time taken hold of the culture. Both Montagu and Collier play important roles in the history of women's satire: their satiric confrontation of popular images of women's bodies can be seen in modern female satirists like Margaret Cho, Tina Fey, and Kathy Griffin.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Pox'd whores and virginal fannies: Shifting representations of women's bodies and their effects on female satire in the eighteenth century.. To get started finding Pox'd whores and virginal fannies: Shifting representations of women's bodies and their effects on female satire in the eighteenth century., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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