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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826466703321

Autore

Brevik-Zender Heidi

Titolo

Fashioning Spaces : Mode and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Paris / / Heidi Brevik-Zender

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-6981-0

1-4426-6980-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (376 p.)

Disciplina

840.9/357

Soggetti

French literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Modernism (Literature) - France

Fashion in literature

Public spaces in literature

Fashion - History - 19th century

Clothing and dress in literature

Interior decoration - History - 19th century

Interior architecture - History - 19th century

Clothing and dress - Social aspects

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Part One: The Staircase -- Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames -- Ups and Downs, Surface and Spectacle: Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet -- Part Two: The Antechamber -- Waiting for Change: Zola's Au Bonheur des Dames and Nana -- Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic -- Part Three: The Fashion Atelier -- Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La Curee -- A Woman's Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans's En Menage and Rachilde's Late-Century Novels -- Epilogue.



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