Crossings in text and textile
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Crossings in text and textile
(Becoming modern : new nineteenth-century studies, . Reading dress series)
University of New Hampshire Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-271) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Crossings in Text and Textile explores the diverse range of transatlantic representations of clothing in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. This collection of essays demonstrates that fashion history and literary history, when examined together, prompt fresh understandings of the complexities of race, class, and sexual identity. By bridging material culture and discourse, Crossings establishes the significance of fashion-while neglecting none of its aesthetic appeal-to offer historicized readings on a variety of topics, from Jane Austen's nuanced display of social interactions through the economics of muslin to the 1871 Park and Boulton cross-dressing trial and Jessie Fauset's selection of apparel to express racial power. The geographic span of textiles from different economic areas around the globe includes Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America. By making use of transatlantic texts to consider the political and social positioning of both workers and consumers, the collection further expands upon the emerging cross-disciplinary study of reading dress. A true "state of the field" work, Crossings in Text and Textiles charts new scholarly ground at the nexus between fashion, textiles, and literature, appealing to a broad interdisciplinary audience of scholars and students.
Table of Contents
Introduction-Katherine Joslin and Daneen Wardrop
"Excesses of Every Kind": Dress and Drag around 1870-Abigail Joseph
An Epitome of Times and Fashions: Temporality and Textiles in Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables-Babak Elahi
Austen's Muslin-Laura George
William Makepeace Thackeray's Fashionable Humbugs: Consuming National Distinctions of Dress in Vanity Fair-Amy L. Montz
"Such Hosts of Rags": Transatlantic Crossings between Paper and Cotton in Melville's "The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids"-Amber Shaw
Dressing the Aesthetic Woman, from "Maison Lucile" to Midnight in Paris-Margaret D. Stetz
Clothing and Colonialism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness-Pouneh Saeedi
The Midwife's Clothing: Jessie Fauset In and Out of Fashion-Kimberly Lamm
Modeling for Men: The Early Jean Rhys-Hope Howell Hodgkins
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