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Titolo: | A cultural history of dress and fashion in the Age of Empire / / edited by Denise Amy Baxter |
Pubblicazione: | London, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2018 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 271 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 391.009 |
Soggetto topico: | Fashion - History |
Clothing and dress - History | |
Altri autori: | BaxterDenise Amy |
Note generali: | Fifth in a set of six volumes. |
General editor: Susan Vincent. | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction / Denise Amy Baxter -- 1. Textiles / Philip A. Sykas -- 2. Production and Distribution / Susan Hiner -- 3. The Body / Annette Becker -- 4. Belief / Denise Baxter -- 5. Gender and Sexuality / Ariel Beaujot -- 6. Status / Vivienne Richmond -- 7. Ethnicity / Sarah Cheang -- 8. Visual Representations / Justine de Young -- 9. Literary Representations / Heidi Brevik-Zender -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index. |
Sommario/riassunto: | During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the production of dress shifted dramatically from being predominantly hand-crafted in small quantities to machine-manufactured in bulk. The increasing democratization of appearances made new fashions more widely available, but at the same time made the need to differentiate social rank seem more pressing. In this age of empire, the coding of class, gender and race was frequently negotiated through dress in complex ways, from fashionable dress which restricted or exaggerated the female body to liberating reform dress, from self-defining black dandies to the oppressions and resistances of slave dress. Richly illustrated with over 100 images and drawing on a plethora of visual, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Empire presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period. |
Titolo autorizzato: | A cultural history of dress and fashion in the Age of Empire |
ISBN: | 1-350-11407-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910828186803321 |
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