TY - BOOK ID - 118022668 TI - Consuming female beauty : British literature and periodicals, 1840-1914 PY - 2023 SN - 1474470114 1474470122 1474470092 PB - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, DB - UniCat KW - English literature KW - Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) in literature. KW - Popular literature KW - History and criticism. KW - 1800-1899 KW - Great Britain UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118022668 AB - Pinpointing how consumer culture transformed female beauty ideals during the 19th and early 20th centuries, this study documents the movement from traditional views about beauty in relation to nature, God, morality and character to a modern conception of beauty as produced in and through consumer culture. While beauty has often been approached in relation to aestheticism and the visual arts in this period, this monograph offers a new and significant focus on how beauty was reshaped in girls' and women's magazines, beauty manuals and fiction during the rise of consumer culture. These archival sources reveal important historical changes in how femininity was shaped and illuminate how contemporary ideas of female beauty, and the methods by which they are disseminated, originated in seismic shifts in 19th-century print culture. ER -