Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973-

Description

1. ix, 223 pages; 24 cm

Summary

1. "An interdisciplinary examination of French fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. This anthology explores connections between dress and modernity through interdisciplinary French humanities scholarship. It brings to life the reciprocal relationships between fashion and a range of primary source materials, including literary fiction, paintings, social commentaries, decorative arts, fashion magazines, mass-circulating newspapers, popular theatrical works, trade publications, and advertisements, among others. The book centers on a specific constellation of concerns--fashion, modernity, and materiality from the eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries--giving depth of focus. Themes include fashion's relationship to the arts, material production, conflict, memory, the nation, social class, race, and gender and sexuality. Among the broader questions framing the volume are some that remain highly pertinent today: What are the various and complex relationships that exist between clothing and the lived body? How do garments hold traces of the past and activate memories of the human experience? In which ways do clothing and adornment express sexualities? How does fashion help to define what it meant and means to be modern? Together, the essays demonstrate fashion's broad reach and appeal as an interdisciplinary category of analysis."--Publisher's description.

Subject

1. Clothing and dress
2. Fashion
3. Materialism
4. Modernism (Literature)
5. French literature
6. Materialism > France
7. France
8. History
9. Fashion in literature
10. Modernism (Literature) > France
11. Clothing and dress in literature
12. French literature > History and criticism
13. Clothing and dress > France > History
14. Criticism, interpretation, etc
15. Fashion > France > History

Genre/Form

1. History.
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Petits-maîtres and Fops in the Eighteenth Century / Pierre Saint-Amand -- Fashion Animation : Heads, Hats, and the Uncanny Work of Fashion / Susan Hiner -- Gloves in Nineteenth-Century France : Materiality and Metaphor / Anne Green -- Gautier's Modern Spin on Fashion / Cary Hollinshead-Strick -- Fashion's Trace : The Material Eternal in Sand's Indiana, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Maupassant's Bel-Ami / Heidi Brevik-Zender -- Beyond the Shadow of the Veil : Claude Monet's The Beach at Trouville / Marni Reva Kessler -- Style Wars : The Uniform and the Polymorphous in Émile Zola's La Débâcle / Nicholas White -- Climbing in Paris : Stairways, Social Class, and the Sartorial in Proust / Áine Larkin -- Expanding Consumer Landscapes : Exhibiting French Men's Fashion in the Interwar / John Potvin.

Call number

1. JFE 19-10793

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Fashion, modernity, and materiality in France : from Rousseau to art deco / edited by Heidi Brevik-Zender.

Publisher

1. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local note

1. ED: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE. INTERDISCIPLINARY ESSAYS. COLOR ILLUSTRATED.

Added author

1. Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973- editor.

LCCN

1. 2018000359

Other standard identifier

1. 40028611416

ISBN

1. 9781438472355 hardcover ; alkaline paper
2. 1438472358 hardcover ; alkaline paper
3. 9781438472362 electronic book

Research call number

1. JFE 19-10793