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Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel
  Samuel Richardson warned in his didactic novel Pamela (1740), ‘Be sure don’t let people’s telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.’¹ This chapter argues that representations of women’s beauty in a selection of eighteenth-century British novels drew on, engaged with, and at times challenged prevailing thoughts on beauty evident in aesthetic treatise and social commentaries. To a greater extent than visual representations in the period, written descriptions could create a truly...

  • Date:

    31 July 2024

  • Publication Status:

    Published

  • Funders:

    Edinburgh Napier Funded

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Aske, K. (2024). Depicting beautiful women in the Eighteenth-century novel. In J. Lipski, & M.-C. Newbould (Eds.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts (140-154). Edinburgh University Press

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