Female beauty [ Taste & Manners ]
… physical features - symmetry, fair skin and rosy cheeks - came to represent feminine virtues, such as delicacy, morality and sensibility. In terms of sociability, beauty became an aesthetic and behavioural expectation, used to … concern with its social significance, and particularly, its influence and role in the conceptualisation of femininity, morality, and sociability. 1 . Oliver Goldsmith, An History of the Earth, and Animated Nature (London: J. Nourse, 1774), … reveal about the individual. Could a person be beautiful without being beautiful on the inside? When issues of virtue, morality, sensibility, and manners were considered in terms of their relationship with physical attractiveness, beauty …
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