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‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry
  While enabling women to embody fashionable trends and the idealised beauty of the period, cosmetics also offered a disguise, not only for ugly and ageing faces but for disease also. Taking examples from advertisements, cosmetic commentaries and Jonathan Swift's dressing-room poetry, this article demonstrates that, in the eighteenth century, cosmetics, fashion and disease are intimately linked to beauty and issues of morality by cultural factors.

  • Type:

    Article

  • Date:

    07 November 2017

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Publisher

    Wiley

  • DOI:

    10.1111/1754-0208.12509

  • ISSN:

    1754-0194

  • Funders:

    Historic Funder (pre-Worktribe)

Citation

Aske, K. (2017). ‘Such gaudy tulips raised from dung’: Cosmetics, Disease and Morality in Jonathan Swift's Dressing‐Room Poetry. Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40(4), 503-517. https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12509

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Keywords

Jonathan Swift, advertisement, women, prostitution, beauty, cosmetics, fashion, body, morality, disease

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