Advertisement: Rowlands' Macassar Oil, Middlemarch Book 7 "Two Temptations"

Item

Advertisement: Rowlands' Macassar Oil, The Best and Safest Restorer and Beautifier of the Human Hair
Title
Advertisement: Rowlands' Macassar Oil, Middlemarch Book 7 "Two Temptations"
Creator
William Blackwood and Sons
Description
Advertisement for Rowlands' Macassar Oil appearing at the end of Book 7 "Two Temptations" of Middlemarch's Blackwood's serialization, page 6. A possible reading positions this advertisement's address to the self-tending male body as a precursor to the liberated homosexual figure emerging from the institutional collapse the novel documents after Casaubon's death
Date
1872
Type
Advertisement
Contributor
Hurl, Ryan
Source
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ee0d700-087d-0133-c40b-58d385a7bbd0
Medium
Web
Bibliographic Citation
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library. "Two Temptations, Book 7." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1872. Accessed April 2, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ee0d700-087d-0133-c40b-58d385a7bbd0