Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris
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Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris
University of Toronto Press, c2015
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-358) and index
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In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years between 1870 and 1900 the chroniclers of Parisian modernity depicted the urban landscape not just in public settings such as boulevards and parks but also in "dislocations," spaces where the public and the intimate overlapped in provocative and subversive ways. Stairwells, theatre foyers, dressmakers' studios, and dressing rooms were in-between places that have long been overlooked but were actually marked as indisputably modern through their connections with high fashion. Fashioning Spaces engages with and thinks beyond the work of critics Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin to arrive at new readings of the French capital. Examining literature by Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, and others, as well as paintings, architecture, and the fashionable garments worn by both men and women, Brevik-Zender crafts a compelling and innovative account of how fashion was appropriated as a way of writing about the complexities of modernity in fin-de-siecle Paris.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: The Staircase Chapter 1. Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola's Au Bonheur des dames Chapter 2. Ups and Downs: Sartorial Spectacle in Texts by Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet Part II: The Antechamber Chapter 3. Waiting for Change: Zola's Au Bonheur des dames and Nana Chapter 4. Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic Part III: The Fashion Atelier Chapter 5. Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La Curee Chapter 6. A Woman's Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans's En Menage and Rachilde's Late-Century Novels Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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