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Fashion and literature / edited by Elizabeth M. Sheehan.

Cambridge eBooks: Frontlist 2026 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Sheehan, Elizabeth M., editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fashion in literature.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Fashion--Social aspects.
Fashion.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Clothing and dress.
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge University Press, 2026.
Summary:
"Examines the relationship between fashion and literature from the medieval period to the present. It explains key questions that have inspired scholarship on the topic and presents cutting edge work in the field. It provides a vital resource for scholars and students in the field"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction. On fashion and literature
The fashionable middle ages : shared, unshared, entangled / Andrea Denny-Brown
C is the cotton-field : American fashion, literature, and slavery / Danielle Skeehan
Intertextual fashion : influencer journalism and the realist novel in nineteenth-century France / Susan Hiner
Fashioning feminism in interwar British women's magazines / Barbara Green
The literary, fashion, race (and the grammar/glamour of it all) / Monica Miller
Dresses that don't need women : fashion, race, feminism, and the vagaries of objecthood / Anne Anlin Cheng
The movements of fashion and material culture / Chloe Wigston Smith
"A decent standard of life and dress" : fashion, romance, and feminist labor politics in Ellen Wilkinson's Clash / Lise Shapiro Sanders
Trans fashion/trans fashioning / Simone Chess
At the intersection of literary and sartorial form in Tagore / Judith Brown and Anushka Sen
Models of dressed selfhood in neoliberal feminist digital wedding media / Ilya Parkins
Fashion modeling, risk, and "Muslim chic" / Vanita Reddy
Oscar Wilde's flesh and fashion's failures / Natalie Prizel
A feminist defense of fashion and gender equality in seventeenth-century Italy / Eugenia Paulicelli
Writing sustainable feminist historiography with Mina Loy / Sophie Oliver
Unprotected : white gloves and Black femininity in Ann Petry's The street / Miriam Thaggert
La factoría : precarity and assimilation in Melissa Rivero's The affairs of the Falcóns / Catherine S. Ramírez
Weathering diaspora in Rajni Perera's "A primordial culture" / Balbir K. Singh.
ISBN:
1-009-30041-5

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