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Jessica P. Clark
Associate Professor of History
Brock University
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Region
Canada
Time Period
19th Century, 20th/ 21st Century
Research Interests
Modern Britain; identity; urban life; the senses; smell; nationalism; beauty
Department PhD Program:
No
Currently accepting graduate students?
Not applicable
Books:
- Scent and the Nation: Smell and Identity in Modern Britain (Stanford University Press, forthcoming Spring 2027)
- The Business of Beauty: Gender and the Body in Modern London (Bloomsbury, 2020)
- A Cultural History of Beauty in the Age of Empire, volume editor (Bloomsbury, 2026)
- Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury, co-edited with Nigel Lezama (Intellect, 2022)
Chapters:
- “Introduction: Representations and Experiences of Beauty in an Age of Empire” in A Cultural History of Beauty. Volume 5: The Age of Empire, ed. Jessica P. Clark. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. 1-26.
- “Fragrance and Fair Women: Perfumers and Consumers in Modern London,” in Capitalism and the Senses, eds. Regina Blaszczyk and David Suisman. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Press, 2023. 183-202.
- “Practices and Processes: the Local and the Global in Nineteenth-Century Shopping” in A Cultural History of Shopping, Volume 5: The Age of Empire, ed. Erika Rappaport. London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 21-42.
- “Luxury and Indigenous Resistance” (Riley Kucheran with Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama), in Canadian Critical Luxury Studies: Decentring Luxury, eds. Jessica P. Clark and Nigel Lezama. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2022. 27-54.
- “Grooming Men: the Material World of the Nineteenth-Century Barbershop,” in Gender and Material Culture in Britain since 1600, eds. Hannah Greig, Jane Hamlett, and Leonie Hannan. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. 104-119.
Journal Articles:
- “‘Lavender for Lads’: Smell and Nationalism in the Great War,” Journal of British Studies (October 2023): 1-29.
- “‘Will You Give me Your Opinion?’: Mundane Beauty in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 1860-1875,” Victorian Periodicals Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 2019): 540-565.
- “‘Clever Ministrations’: Regenerative Beauty Techniques at the Fin De Siècle,” Palgrave Communications 3, no. 47 (December 2017).
- “Buying Beauty: Female Beauty Consumption in the Modern British World,” History Compass 14, no. 5 (May 2016): 206-217.
- “Pomeroy v. Pomeroy: Beauty, Modernity, and the Female Entrepreneur in Fin-De-Siècle London,” The Women’s History Review 22, no. 6 (2013): 877-903.
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I'm a cultural and social historian of modern Britain and especially the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. My research focuses on constructions of gender, class, race, and the senses and the ways these shaped lived experiences.
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