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OUTWARD APPEARANCES .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:30 PS PAGE1 TheBucknellStudiesinEighteenth-Century LiteratureandCulture GeneralEditor: GregClingham,BucknellUniversity AdvisoryBoard: PaulK.Alkon,UniversityofSouthernCalifornia ChloeChard,IndependentScholar ClementHawes,ThePennsylvaniaStateUniversity RobertMarkley,UniversityofIllinoisatUrbana-Champaign JessicaMunns,UniversityofDenver CedricD.ReverandII,UniversityofWyoming JanetTodd,UniversityofAberdeen TheBucknellStudiesinEighteenth-CenturyLiteratureandCultureaimstopublishchalleng- ing,neweighteenth-centuryscholarship.Ofparticularinterestiscritical,historical,and interdisciplinaryworkthatisinterestinglyandintelligentlytheorized,andthatbroad- ensandrefinestheconceptionofthefield.Atthesametime,theseriesremainsopento all theoretical perspectives and different kinds of scholarship. While the focus of the series is the literature, history, arts, and culture (including art, architecture, music, travel,andhistoryofscience,medicine,andlaw)ofthelongeighteenthcenturyinBrit- ainandEurope,theseriesisalsointerestedinscholarshipthatestablishesrelationships withothergeographies,literature,andculturesfortheperiod1660–1830. TitlesinThisSeries RolandRacevskis,TimeandWaysofKnowingUnderLouisXIV:Molie`re,Se´vigne´,Lafayette LauraRosenthalandMitaChoudhury,eds.,MonstrousDreamsofReason KatherineWestScheil,TheTasteoftheTown:ShakespearianComedy andtheEarlyEighteenth-CenturyTheater PhilipSmallwood,ed.,JohnsonRe-Visioned:LookingBeforeandAfter PeterWalmsley,Locke’sEssayandtheRhetoricofScience LisaWood,ModesofDiscipline:Women,Conservatism,and theNovelaftertheFrenchRevolution MarkBlackwell,ed.,TheSecretLifeofThings:Animals,Objects,andIt-Narrativesin Eighteenth-CenturyEngland ChrisMounseyandCarolineGonda,eds.,QueerPeople:NegotiationsandExpressionsof Homosexuality,1700–1800 SusanManningandPeterFrance,EnlightenmentandEmancipation EvanGottlieb,FeelingBritish:SympathyandNationalIdentityinScottishand EnglishWriting,1707–1832 RolandRacevskis,TragicPassages:JeanRacine’sArtoftheThreshold LesleyH.Walker,AMother’sLove:CraftingFeminineVirtueinEnlightenmentFrance RonBroglio,TechnologiesofthePicturesque:BritishArt,Poetry,andInstruments,1750–1830 WillPritchard,OutwardAppearances:TheFemaleExteriorinRestorationLondon DavidDuffandCatherineJones,eds.,Scotland,Ireland,andtheRomanticAesthetic http://www.bucknell.edu/universitypress/ .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:30 PS PAGE2 OUTWARD APPEARANCES The Female Exterior in Restoration London Will Pritchard Lewisburg BucknellUniversityPress .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:32 PS PAGE3 (cid:2)2008byRosemontPublishing&PrintingCorp. All rights reserved. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or theinternalorpersonaluseofspecificclients,isgrantedbythecopyrightowner,pro- videdthatabasefeeof$10.00,pluseightcentsperpage,percopyispaiddirectlyto theCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive,Danvers,Massachusetts01923. [978-0-8387-5688-1/08$10.00(cid:3)8¢pp,pc.] AssociatedUniversityPresses 2010EastparkBoulevard Cranbury,NJ08512 ThepaperusedinthispublicationmeetstherequirementsoftheAmerican NationalStandardforPermanenceofPaperforPrintedLibraryMaterials Z39.48-1984. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Pritchard,Will,1965- Outwardappearances:thefemaleexteriorinRestorationLondon/WillPritchard. p. cm.—(TheBucknellstudiesineighteenth-centuryliteratureandculture) AculturalstudyofhowmeninRestorationLondon,viewwomenthroughtheir outwardphysicalappearancesandthroughtheirincreasedappearancesinpublic places.Basedonliteraryandnon-literarytextsfromtheyears1650-1700. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978-0-8387-5688-1(alk.paper) 1. Englishliterature—Earlymodern,1500-1700—Historyandcriticism. 2. Womeninliterature. 3. Women—Physiology. 4. Publicspacesin literature. 5. Men—Attitudes—England—London—History—17thcentury. 6. Women—Publicopinion—England—London—History—17thcentury. 7. Femininityinliterature. 8. Bodyimageinliterature. 9. London(England)— Sociallifeandcustoms—17thcentury. I. Title.Series. PR437.P75 2008 820.9(cid:2)3522—dc22 2007019225 PRINTEDINTHEUNITEDSTATESOFAMERICA .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:32 PS PAGE4 ForMo, withwhom .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:32 PS PAGE5 .................16520$ $$FM 10-02-0708:34:32 PS PAGE6 Contents ListofIllustrations 9 Acknowledgments 11 Introduction:OutwardAppearances 15 1. TheProblemofFemaleLegibility 35 2. ThePromiseofFemaleLegibility 62 3. ThePlayhouse 82 4. ThePark 112 5. TheNewExchange 145 Conclusion 182 Notes 187 Bibliography 244 Index 262 7 .................16520$ CNTS 10-02-0708:34:36 PS PAGE7 .................16520$ CNTS 10-02-0708:34:36 PS PAGE8 Illustrations 1. Plate from [Thomas Bartholin], Bartholinus Anatomy . . . (1688) 69 2. Frontispieceto[FrancisHawkins],NewAdditions unto YouthsBehaviour...(1672) 73 3. St.James’sParkbeforerenovation (fromFaithorneand Harcourt’s1658map) 116 4. St.James’sParkafterrenovation(from Ogilbyand Morgan’s1682map) 117 5. TheNewExchange,asseenfrom theStrand(fromJohn Harris’sengraving) 148 6. FrontispiecetoKatherinePhilips,Poems(1667) 170 7. FrontispiecetoMaryCarleton,TheCaseofMadamMary Carleton(1663) 172 8. FrontispiecetoRobertCodrington,TheSecondPartof YouthsBehaviour(1664) 173 9. FrontispiecetoFrancisKirkman,TheCounterfeitLady Unveiled(1673) 175 10. FrontispiecetoFemalePoemsby‘‘Ephelia’’(1679) 176 11. Illustration fromTheDisdainfulVirginLedCaptive(1682) 177 12. Illustration fromTheSchoolofVenus (ca.1683–1706) 178 13. Illustration fromTheDescriptionofaTownMiss(1670) 179 14. Illustration fromTheCountry-man’sDelight(ca.1670–1696) 180 9 .................16520$ ILLU 10-02-0708:34:40 PS PAGE9 .................16520$ ILLU 10-02-0708:34:40 PS PAGE10

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This book elucidates early modern attitudes toward women's public display. It is a cultural study that draws on a wide range of literary and non-literary texts from 1650-1700 to revisit the sites where women appeared most prominently: the playhouse, the park, and the New Exchange (a shopping arcade
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