“Eye of the Spectator”: Surveillance and Fashion in [The Spectator]
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This essay is primarily concerned with examining how fashion is inextricably bound up with discourses with vision and gender identity in The Spectator periodical. Whereas The Spectator has been commonly viewed in the context of bourgeois public sphere, this paper attempts to address issues of gender and fashion that have been largely neglected in Habermas’s account of the public sphere. This paper argues that Mr. Spectator’s surveillance of women as the proper objects of his visual and moral scrutiny is crucial because it functions as an imaginative tool to make sense of the realm of exchange and instability closely associated with expanding commerce. Accordingly, Mr. Spectator’s persistent efforts to contain and manage excessive female consumption serve less to establish his scopic power than to reaffirm the powerful nature of female sexuality and the consuming desires of fashionable women who elude male surveillance through strategic display and deceptive appearances.
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This essay is primarily concerned with examining how fashion is inextricably bound up with discourses with vision and gender identity in The Spectator periodical. Whereas The Spectator has been commonly viewed in the context of bourgeois public sphere, this paper attempts to address issues of gender and fashion that have been largely neglected in Habermas’s account of the public sphere. This paper argues that Mr. Spectator’s surveillance of women as the proper objects of his visual and moral scrutiny is crucial because it functions as an imaginative tool to make sense of the realm of exchange and instability closely associated with expanding commerce. Accordingly, Mr. Spectator’s persistent efforts to contain and manage excessive female consumption serve less to establish his scopic power than to reaffirm the powerful nature of female sexuality and the consuming desires of fashionable women who elude male surveillance through strategic display and deceptive appearances.
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