1.

Record Nr.

UNIBAS000031708

Autore

Boccaccio, Giovanni

Titolo

De mulieribus claris / Giovanni Boccaccio ; [a cura di Vittorio Zaccaria]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : <<Arnoldo>> Mondadori, 1967

Descrizione fisica

557 p. ; 18 cm

Collana

I classici Mondadori

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391378403316

Titolo

At a meeting of the heads of houses, April 28, 1690 [[electronic resource] ] : Whereas great care hath been taken for regulating the apparel and habits of all scholars of whatever rank or degree within the University .

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Oxford, : s.n.], 1690

Descrizione fisica

1 sheet ([1] p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

EdwardsJonathan

Soggetti

Academic costume - England - Oxford

Broadsides17th century.England

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Title vignette: Oxford University coat of arms.

Signed: Jonathan Edwards, vicechancellor.

Place of publication suggested by Wing (2nd ed.).

Reproduction of original in: Bodleian Library.



Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0014

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911057020703321

Autore

Murfin Audrey

Titolo

Animal Fashions : Colonialism, Collecting, and Gender / / edited by Audrey Murfin, Victoria Pettersen Lantz, Sibyl Bucheli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2026

ISBN

3-032-06191-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2026.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Fashion and the Body

Altri autori (Persone)

Murfin

Disciplina

391.2094109034

Soggetti

Clothing and dress - Social aspects

Human body in popular culture

Culture - Study and teaching

Sex

Popular culture

Fashion and the Body

Cultural Studies

Gender Studies

Popular Culture

Visual Culture

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction: Cruelties of Fashion -- Part I: Collection -- Chapter 2: Bird[s] Matter: The Case of Hummingbirds -- Chapter 3: Collecting Coleoptera: Nineteenth Century Science and Fashion -- Chapter 4: From Sexual Selection to Sex and The City: The Biogeographies of a Blue Bird-of-Paradise -- Part II: Conquest  -- Chapter 5: Stylish Scarabs: Egyptian Fashion and Colonial Consumption in Amelia Edwards’ A Thousand Miles up the Nile -- Chapter 6: The Commodification of Indian Tigers’ Body Parts as Luxurious and Occult Items: Exploring the India-Britain Relationship (1858-1940) -- Chapter 7: Beetles’ Wings and Serpents’ Scales: Ellen Terry’s Lady Macbeth and



the Victorian Animal-Woman -- Part III: Display -- Chapter 8: Free Spirits with Wild Hearts: The Reclamation of Black Femme Humanity Through Animal Skins and Prints in Burlesque Performan -- Chapter 9: Victorian Vanities and “Frivolous Women:” Fashionable Desires and the Muff -- Chapter 10: Puss’ Hat: Taxidermized Excess in the Gilded Age and the Internet Era.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines material artifacts that inhabit the intersection between fashion, colonialism and biological specimen collection. More broadly, this book demonstrates the significance of animal fashion in the nineteenth century, its relation to the Victorian imperial project, and the way the female body has been used to display the exploitation of natural resources as a product of colonialism. By adorning the female body with natural specimens, the Victorians and nineteenth-century high society showed mastery over the areas from which the animals were collected, and women’s bodies became, simultaneously, both the object possessed and the canvas for a display of colonial wealth. This interdisciplinary collection crosses the humanities, the arts, and the sciences, and is thus uniquely positioned to examine the nexus of cultural studies and scientific discourse by contextualizing fashion as representative of popular culture, feminine ideals, and scientific advancement. Audrey Murfin is Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, USA. She is the author of Robert Louis Stevenson and the Art of Collaboration (2019). Victoria Pettersen Lantz is a scholar, dramaturg, and artist living in East Texas, where she is an Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Theatre and Musical Theatre at Sam Houston State University, USA. She is the co-editor of Nationalism and Youth in Theatre and Performance (2014). Sibyl Rae Bucheli is Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Sam Houston State University, USA. She holds a PhD in Entomology from The Ohio State University.