Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature / by Chiara Battisti.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Battisti, Chiara, author.

Series:

Literaturwissenschaft, 2940-8881 ; 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European literature.

Literature, Modern--19th century.

Literature, Modern.

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Local Subjects:

European Literature.

Nineteenth-Century Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (171 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Frank & Timme GmbH : Imprint: Frank & Timme, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Figures/Plates

Fil Rouge: An Introduction

ABC of Fashion: A Short Fashion Glossary

1 Wearable Texts: Critical Approaches to Fashion, Fiction and Culture

1.1 The Anatomy of Fashion: Fashion as Literature

1.2 Fashion between Imitation and Class Distinction: Classical Sociological Theories and Beyond

1.3 Fashion as Language: Semiotic and Semiological Perspectives

1.4 Flügel's Psychological Perspective: Between Decoration and "Great Masculine Renunciation"

2 Fashion in Victorian Literature approaching the topic, or Laying out our Pattern

2.1 The Sartorial Context: From Hogarth to the Victorian Episteme

2.2 (Victorian) Clothes as Texts

3 Fashion and Femininity: Between "Frivolous Distinction" and "Powerful Fiction"

3.1 Stitching and Writing, Mending and Reading: Victorian Dual Literacy

3.2 Chromatic Nuances, Fabric's Thickness and Sartorial Selves

3.3 "Reader, I married him"

4 Refashioning Masculinities: Fifty Shades of Black

4.1 Gentlemanliness: All in the Detail

4.2 Fashioning the Would-Be Gentleman

4.3 "Dandy of Intellect, Dandy of Manners, Dandy of Dress"

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Print version: Battisti, Chiara Tailoring Identities in Victorian Literature

ISBN:

3-7329-8983-6

9783732989836

OCLC:

1379433092