{"product_id":"historical-style-9780812248326","title":"Historical Style","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.\u003cbr\u003eIn a panoptic sweep, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Our ideas of history are dependent upon lived temporalities shaped by commercial and material forces, and I have never seen this truth so solidly, aptly, and compellingly explicated as in Timothy Campbell's book.\" * Erin Mackie, Syracuse University *\u003cbr\u003e\"Original, witty, and very well-researched, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e deftly argues that eighteenth-century British culture became self-consciously periodized through the new phenomenon of fashion trends.\" * Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Fashions Past\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE DRESS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE FICTIONS OF SERIAL HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Walter Scott's Fashion Systems\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405728129367,"sku":"9780812248326","price":56.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812248326.jpg?v=1730493418","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/historical-style-9780812248326","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}