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Author:   Cristina Giorcelli ,  Paula Rabinowitz ,  Professor Paula Rabinowitz
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 20.30cm
Weight:   0.363kg
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9780816687473

ISBN 10:   0816687471
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   07 August 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface and AcknowledgmentsClothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade Introduction: Fashioning a Century Cristina Giorcelli1. Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and TransvestismBianca Iaccarino Idelson2. Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A Personal Memoir of La PerlaAnna Masotti3. Modernity Clothing: Birthing the Modern Atlantic/Birthing the Modern RepublicCarroll Smith-Rosenberg4. Garment of the Unseen: The Philosophy of Clothes in Carlyle and EmersonGiuseppe Nori5. An Emblem of All the Rest: Wearing the Widow’s Cap in Victorian LiteratureDagni Bredesen6. Clothing the Marmorean Flock: Sartorial Historicism and The Marble FaunBruno Monfort7. FlorenceBeryl Korot8. Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie KnewClair Hughes9. Costume and Form: D’Annunzio and Mutable AppearancesMarta Savini10. Shawls Redefine Womanhood in American Literature, 1850s-1920sAnna Scacchi11. A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: Education, Female Identity, and Dress at the End of the Nineteenth CenturyCarmela Covato12. Gender and Power: Dressing “Charlie”Cristina Giorcelli13. Imaginative Habits: Fantasies of Undressing in The AmbassadorsAgnès Derail-ImbertCoda: Seen and ObscenePaula Rabinowitz Contributors

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A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion. --CHOICE Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage. --Fashion Theory

This ambitious, fascinating ethnography clearly articulates how sex tourism in Bahia, Brazil, depends on the sexualized and racialized bodies of people of African descent. Erica Lorraine Williams makes a significant contribution by examining how sex tourism is both a racial and sexual project and how race is central to the commodification of culture. --Amalia L. Cabezas, author of Economies of Desire: Sex and Tourism in Cuba and the Dominican Republic

A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion. --CHOICE Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage. --Fashion Theory A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion. CHOICE Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage. Fashion Theory

A thought-provoking volume that offers key insights into the interconnections among culture, literature, and fashion. -CHOICE Fashioning the Nineteenth Century proves to be a remarkable instrument to refine our knowledge of narrative worlds whose territories are inhabited also by fashion as part of the common humanistic heritage. -Fashion Theory

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Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three. Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota.

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