The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture

The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture / edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards.

"In these essays, ranging in period from the 1670s to the 1790s, and in place from England to Ireland, France, Germany, America, and Barbados, we can trace ways in which dress articulates, literally in material terms, transformations in the economic conditions, social relations, and ideological...

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Other Authors: Munns, Jessica, 1949-, Richards, Penny, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Newark : London : University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, ©1999.
Subjects:
Clothing and dress in literature.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > History > 18th century.
Costume.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • The clothes that wear us / Jessica Munns and Penny Richards
  • Performing nations in the Restoration Stage: Wycherley's Gentleman dancing-master / Cynthia Lowenthal
  • The sublime, the beautiful, "The Siddons" / Laura J. Rosenthal
  • Hester Santlow's Harlequine: dance, dress, status, and gender in the London stage, 1706-1734 / Elizabeth Miller Lewis
  • Performing thirdness: Goethe on the Roman stage / Catriona MacLeod
  • The masquerade of colonial identity in France: Brooke's Emily Montague (1769) / Joe Snader
  • Sophie La Roche's History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: who is dressing and writing the heroine? / Helga Schutte Watt
  • Freke in men's clothes: transgression and the carnivalesque in Edgeworth's Belinda / Eleanor Ty
  • Masquerade as mode in the French fashion print / Sarah R. Cohen
  • Designing women: the fabric of gender politics in the Tattler and Spectator papers / Shawn Lisa Maurer
  • Putting on Irish "stuff": the politics of Anglo-Irish cross-dressing / Helen Burke
  • Cultural cross-dressing: the colorful case of the Caribbean Creole / Erin Skye Mackie
  • "With nosegays and gloves ... /So trim and so gay": clothing and public execution in the eighteenth century / Jessica Munns
  • Dress, power, and crossing the Atlantic: figuring the Black Exodus in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century / John Saillant
  • Reading dress, reading culture: the trial of Joseph Gerrald, 1794 / Nolan Marchand
  • Afterword / Deborah C. Payne.

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