Fashioning the nineteenth century / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors.
Giorcelli, Cristina, editor.; Rabinowitz, Paula, editor.
2014
PN56.C684 F45 2014 (Mapit)
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Title Fashioning the nineteenth century / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors.
ISBN 9780816687473 paperback alkaline paper
0816687471 paperback alkaline paper
9780816687466 hardcover alkaline paper
0816687463 hardcover alkaline paper
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2014]
Language English
Description xxiii, 289 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Call Number PN56.C684 F45 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 809/.933564
Summary " In nineteenth-century Europe and the United States, fashion--once the province of the well-to-do--began to make its way across class lines. At once a democratizing influence and a means of maintaining distinctions, gaps in time remained between what the upper classes wore and what the lower classes later copied. And toward the end of the century, style also moved from the streets to the parlor. The third in a four-part series charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing, dress, and accessories, Fashioning the Nineteenth Century focuses on this transformative period in an effort to show how certain items of apparel acquired the status of fashion and how fashion shifted from the realm of the elites into the emerging middle and working classes--and back. The contributors to this volume are leading scholars from France, Italy, and the United States, as well as a practicing psychoanalyst and artists working in fashion and with textiles. Whether considering girls' school uniforms in provincial Italy, widows' mourning caps in Victorian novels, Charlie's varying dress in Kate Chopin's eponymous story, or the language of clothing in Henry James, the essays reveal how changes in ideals of the body and its adornment, in classes and nations, created what we now understand to be the imperatives of fashion. Contributors: Dagni Bredesen, Eastern Illinois U; Carmela Covato, U of Rome Three; Agnes Derail-Imbert, École Normale Superieure/VALE U of Paris, Sorbonne; Clair Hughes, International Christian University of Tokyo; Bianca Iaccarino Idelson; Beryl Korot; Anna Masotti; Bruno Monfort, Universite of Paris, Ouest Nanterre La Defense; Giuseppe Nori, U of Macerata, Italy; Marta Savini, U of Rome Three; Anna Scacchi, U of Padua; Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, U of Michigan. "-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
Added Author Giorcelli, Cristina, editor.
Rabinowitz, Paula, editor.
Series Habits of being ; 3.
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Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade
Introduction: Fashioning a Century / Cristina Giorcelli
1. Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and Transvestism / Bianca Iaccarino Idelson
2. Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A Personal Memoir of La Perla / Anna Masotti
3. Modernity Clothing: Birthing the Modern Atlantic/Birthing the Modern Republic / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg
4. Garment of the Unseen: The Philosophy of Clothes in Carlyle and Emerson / Giuseppe Nori
5. An Emblem of All the Rest: Wearing the Widow's Cap in Victorian Literature / Dagni Bredesen
6. Clothing the Marmorean Flock: Sartorial Historicism and The Marble Faun / Bruno Monfort
7. Florence / Beryl Korot
8. Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie Knew / Clair Hughes
9. Costume and Form: D'Annunzio and Mutable Appearances / Marta Savini
10. Redefining American Womanhood: Shawls Nineteenth-Century Literature / Anna Scacchi
11. A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: Education, Female Identity, and Dress in late Nineteenth-Century Italy / Carmela Covato
12. Gender and Power: Dressing "Charlie" / Cristina Giorcelli
13. Imaginative Habits: Fantasies of Undressing in The Ambassadors / Agnès Derail-Imbert
Coda: Seen and Obscene / Paula Rabinowitz.

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