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Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion."—CHOICE
"Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage."—Fashion Theory
Table of ContentsContents
Preface and AcknowledgmentsClothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade
Introduction: Fashioning a Century
Cristina Giorcelli1. Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and TransvestismBianca Iaccarino Idelson2. Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A Personal Memoir of La PerlaAnna Masotti3. Modernity Clothing: Birthing the Modern Atlantic/Birthing the Modern RepublicCarroll Smith-Rosenberg4. Garment of the Unseen: The Philosophy of Clothes in Carlyle and EmersonGiuseppe Nori5. An Emblem of All the Rest: Wearing the Widow’s Cap in Victorian LiteratureDagni Bredesen6. Clothing the Marmorean Flock: Sartorial Historicism and The Marble FaunBruno Monfort7. FlorenceBeryl Korot8. Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie KnewClair Hughes9. Costume and Form: D’Annunzio and Mutable AppearancesMarta Savini10. Shawls Redefine Womanhood in American Literature, 1850s-1920sAnna Scacchi11. A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: Education, Female Identity, and Dress at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyCarmela Covato12. Gender and Power: Dressing “Charlie”Cristina Giorcelli13. Imaginative Habits: Fantasies of Undressing in The AmbassadorsAgnès Derail-ImbertCoda: Seen and ObscenePaula Rabinowitz
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