<b>¿A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair.¿ Times Literary Supplement</b>The Enlightenment (1650-1800) was the Golden Age of hair. Hair dominated fashion as never before or since, with more men and women than ever donning elaborate wigs and hairdos. Such unprecedentedly extravagant styling naturally increased the demand for the services of professional hairdressers, whose numbers grew apace throughout the period. They, in turn, created a new range of hair-care products and a new literature of hair-care advice, ranging from hairstyles to hygiene, thus enlarging the market and further stimulating consumption.<i>A Cultural History of Hair in the Enlightenment</i> offers a record of their marketing success, mindful that the ultimate product of this culture of consumption was the consumer. Literary and visual arts celebrated the ambitious t¿s and coifs of the period, but they also lampooned and caricatured the most fashionable in society. By exploring paintings, pri
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Could an institution as sacred and traditional as marriage undergo a revolution? Some people living during the so-called Age of Enlightenment thought so. By marrying for that selfish, personal emotion of love rather than to serve religious or family interests,...
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French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote, ¿the general effect of the theatre is to strengthen the national character to augment the national inclinations, and to give a new energy to all the passions¿. During the Enlightenment, the advancement...
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Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colorful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected...
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This fourth volume of <i>A Cultural History of Western Empires </i>explores the intersections and transformations of empire in the late 17th and 18th centuries: an age of ¿Enlightenment¿ understood here both as a product of these new forces...
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