Race and Beauty: Early Modern Cosmetics and the Mythology of Whiteness
Author:   Josie Schoel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781032499321


Pages:   182
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Format:   Hardback
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Race and Beauty: Early Modern Cosmetics and the Mythology of Whiteness


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Author:   Josie Schoel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781032499321


ISBN 10:   103249932
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   29 April 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: “scorched no more.”: Performing Whiteness Chapter 1: “Bought, Borrowed, and Sold Complexions:” Cosmetics and Anglo-Ottoman Traffic Chapter 2: “Fair Figures”: The Portraits of Elizabeth I"" Chapter 3: “Dappled Ladies”: Maculation as Racial Coding Chapter 4: “Strange Shoppes of Drugges:” The Apothecary and The Marketing of Whiteness Chapter 5: “Lyke unto a Lyvely Thing”: The White Effigial Body. Chapter 6: “A noble confection”: Ben Jonson’s Masque of Gypsies Metamorphosed Epilogue Bibliography

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Josie Schoel is a professor at the Department of English at Endicott College, specializing in early modern British literature and culture. Her work, which has appeared in SEL: Studies in English Literature: 1500‒1900 and Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance Objects, explores cosmetic materiality and emerging notions of cultural difference and racial meaning.

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