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Fashioning the Nineteenth Century : Habits of Being 3 / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Habits of Being Fashioning the Nineteenth Century
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clothing and dress in literature.
- Fashion in literature.
- Literature and society--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
- Clothing and dress.
- Fashion--Social aspects.
- Fashion.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, fashion-once the province of the well-to-do-began to make its way across class lines. At once a democratizing influence and a means of maintaining distinctions, gaps in time remained between what the upper classes wore and what the lower classes later copied. And toward the end of the century, style also moved from the streets to the parlor. The third in a four-part series charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing, dress, and accessories, Fashioning the Nineteenth Century focuses on this transformative period in an e
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade; Introduction: FASHIONING A CENTURY; 1 Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and Transvestism; 2 Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A PERSONAL MEMOIR OF LA PERLA; 3 Modernity Clothing: BIRTHING THE MODERN ATLANTIC/BIRTHING THE MODERN REPUBLIC; 4 Garment of the Unseen: THE PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES IN CARLYLE AND EMERSON; 5 An Emblem of All the Rest: WEARING THE WIDOW''S CAP IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE; 6 Clothing the Marmorean Flock: SARTORIAL HISTORICISM AND THE MARBLE FAUN; 7 Florence
- 8 Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie Knew9 Costume and Form: D''ANNUNZIO AND MUTABLE APPEARANCES; 10 Redefining American Womanhood: SHAWLS IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE; 11 A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: EDUCATION, FEMALE IDENTITY, AND DRESS IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ITALY; 12 Gender and Power: DRESSING ""CHARLIE""; 13 Imaginative Habits: FANTASIES OF UNDRESSING IN THE AMBASSADORS; Coda: SEEN AND OBSCENE; Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-8751-X
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