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

This innovative book explores the role of cast steel in instruments for refining the body in the eighteenth century, amidst the changing climate of ideas surrounding 'polite' bodily form and appearance.

Author: A. Withey
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
Published: 12/03/2015
Pages: 162
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9781137467478

About the Author

Alun Withey is a historian of medicine and the body, and a Wellcome Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, UK. Withey's work on the medical history of early modern Wales (2012) was awarded the EAHMH Book Prize in 2013. His current research project explores the health and hygiene history of facial hair in Britain c. 1700-1918.