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This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.

Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of figures
1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An introduction to Gothic fashion
2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic body and the politics of décolletage
3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic fiction
4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic
5. Cosmo-Gothic: The double and the single woman
6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the perennial return of Goth
7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusion
Bibliography
Fashion spreads
Film and visual media
Selected discography
Selected electronic sources

Fashioning Gothic Bodies

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 5/13/2004 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719064012, 978-0719064012
      ISBN10: 0719064015

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.

      Table of Contents

      Dedication
      Acknowledgements
      List of figures
      1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An introduction to Gothic fashion
      2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic body and the politics of décolletage
      3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic fiction
      4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic
      5. Cosmo-Gothic: The double and the single woman
      6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the perennial return of Goth
      7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusion
      Bibliography
      Fashion spreads
      Film and visual media
      Selected discography
      Selected electronic sources

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