Sir Charles Grandison : Richardson on Body and Character

McMaster, Juliet

doi:10.1353/ecf.1989.0018

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“…110 Skin was the most easily accessible organ of the human body, available for all to use as a diagnostic tool and for which, by the eighteenth century, a wide variety of health manuals catered and contemporary novels articulated in moral terms. 111 Combining both professions, the Irish physician and playwright Oliver Goldsmith opined in 1774 that 'a fair complexion seems […] as a transparent covering to the soul; all the variations of the passions, even expressions of joy or sorrow, flows through the cheek, and, without language, marks the mind'. 112 On the scaffold, Madame Desmoulins, 'possessing grace and beauty to an uncommon degree', 'had dressed herself with much taste […] giving transparence to the brightness of her complexion'.…”

Section: Reading Body Texts: Embodied Difference and Its Meaningsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Writing Doctors, Body Work, and Body Texts in the French Revolution

Broomhall¹

2023

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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This paper explores the construction of the identities of Philippe Curtius and his protégé Marie Grosholtz, known as Madame Tussaud, as providers of medical and health services, body workers, and entrepreneurs in key works that charted their experiences during the volatile period of the French Revolution. As purveyors of entertainment that derived its attraction from perceived close rendering of the likenesses of noteworthy individuals, modellers in wax required attentive discernment of bodies, or at least the capacity for imaginative descriptive skills, establishing a professional language for body work. Moreover, Tussaud's account explicitly foregrounds complex gender dynamics as a young woman interacting with the bodies of male and female clients. This essay explores how important eighteenth‐century gendered conceptualizations of body work are revealed in the body texts produced in this period.

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Section: Reading Body Texts: Embodied Difference and Its Meaningsmentioning

confidence: 99%