“숙녀의 화장방”에서는 무슨 일이 있었는가?: 레이디 메리 워틀리 몬태규와 오거스턴 풍자의 젠더
What Happened in the “Lady’s Dressing Room”?: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Gender(ing) of Augustan Satire
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It is no coincidence that the most celebrated of Augustan misogynist satires is entitled “The Lady’s Dressing Room” and many more are set in the same, for it is a space pregnant with layers of significance in eighteenth-century gender politics. First, as an antechamber to the lady’s bedroom, the “Dressing-Room” is a twilight zone between the private and public, where the lady dresses herself prior to public appearance or entertains her paramour or a coterie of friends. For male satirists, however, the “Lady’s Dressing Room” primarily denotes the duplicity of the eighteenth-century “Fine Lady,” who rises a “Goddess” out of her “dirty” corporeality there. Also, seemingly the lady’s territory, the room is but a contested one, where her suitors force entry for voyeuristic observation or a “Rape of the Lock.” With these interrelated significations in mind, this paper analyses the Augustan triumvirate’s poems on the “Lady's Dressing-Room” alongside Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s responses to them and her own Town Eclogues. A close examination of the poems reveals how the Augustan satirists attempt to penetrate the “Lady’s Dressing Room” both physically and metaphorically and thereby gender their satire as ‘masculine,’ and how Montagu at once portrays the same room as an extension of the female subject and derides the male satirists’ fright at female corporeality that discomfits their penetration and subjugation.
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It is no coincidence that the most celebrated of Augustan misogynist satires is entitled “The Lady’s Dressing Room” and many more are set in the same, for it is a space pregnant with layers of significance in eighteenth-century gender politics. First, as an antechamber to the lady’s bedroom, the “Dressing-Room” is a twilight zone between the private and public, where the lady dresses herself prior to public appearance or entertains her paramour or a coterie of friends. For male satirists, however, the “Lady’s Dressing Room” primarily denotes the duplicity of the eighteenth-century “Fine Lady,” who rises a “Goddess” out of her “dirty” corporeality there. Also, seemingly the lady’s territory, the room is but a contested one, where her suitors force entry for voyeuristic observation or a “Rape of the Lock.” With these interrelated significations in mind, this paper analyses the Augustan triumvirate’s poems on the “Lady's Dressing-Room” alongside Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s responses to them and her own Town Eclogues. A close examination of the poems reveals how the Augustan satirists attempt to penetrate the “Lady’s Dressing Room” both physically and metaphorically and thereby gender their satire as ‘masculine,’ and how Montagu at once portrays the same room as an extension of the female subject and derides the male satirists’ fright at female corporeality that discomfits their penetration and subjugation.
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