Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Egan, Gerald (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3030268977 ISBN-13: 9783030268978 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $123.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 18th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
Dewey: 306.09 |
Physical Information: 1.4" H x 6.1" W x 8.4" (1.70 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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Publisher Description: Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with modishness, stylishness, fashion? The essays in this book explore these and other questions as they look at authors from the eighteenth century through the postmodern and digital eras, cultural producers who were also men and women of fashion: Alexander Pope, Hester Thrale, Mary Robinson, Lord Byron, William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Oliphant, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Trudi Kanter, Angela Carter, and Martin Margiela. The essays collected here ultimately converge upon a fundamental question: what happens to our notions of timeless literature when authorship itself is implicated in the transient and the temporary, the cycles and materials of fashion? "Gerald Egan's provocative introduction to this exciting new book poses a bold question: How are authorship and literature - so often linked to ideas of transcendence - implicated in the transient trends and stuff of fashion? The thirteen chapters that follow track authorship's complex implication in the discourses and materiality of fashion and fashionable goods from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Wide-ranging in discipline and chronology, yet forensically focused and carefully argued, this book makes a striking and wonderfully original contribution to studies of authorship, celebrity and material culture." -- Dr Jennie Batchelor, Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Kent, UK |