Technology, Self-Fashioning and Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain: Refined Bodies

1. Introduction: Framing the Enlightened Body
Alun Withey

2. Shaping the Body: The Politics of Posture
Alun Withey

3. Shaving and Masculinity in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Alun Withey

4. Managing the Body: The Material Culture of Personal Grooming
Alun Withey

5. New Ways of Seeing: Sight, Spectacles and Self-Fashioning
Alun Withey

6. Coda: Surgical Instruments and Bodily Transformation
Alun Withey

7. Conclusion: (Re)constructing the Eighteenth-Century Body
Alun Withey

Nyckelord: History, Cultural History, History of Science, History of Britain and Ireland, Modern History, Social History