- Additional Authors
- McNeil, Peter, 1966-
- Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 262 p.)
- Summary
- "Eighteenth-century fashion was cosmopolitan and varied. Whilst the wildly extravagant and colourful elite fashions parodied in contemporary satire had significant influence on wider dress habits, more austere garments produced in darker fabrics also reflected the ascendancy of a puritan middle class as well as a more practical approach to dress. With the rise of print culture and reading publics, fashions were more quickly disseminated and debated than ever, and the appetite for fashion periodicals went hand in hand with a preoccupation with the emerging concept of taste. Richly illustrated with 100 images and drawing on pictorial, textual and object sources, A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays on textiles, production and distribution, the body, belief, gender and sexuality, status, ethnicity, and visual and literary representations to illustrate the diversity and cultural significance of dress and fashion in the period."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Uniform Title
- Cultural history of dress and fashion in the Age of Enlightenment (Online)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Reproduction (note)
- ISBN
- 9781474206389 (online)
- OCLC
- ssj0002672359
- Title
A cultural history of dress and fashion in the Age of Enlightenment [electronic resource] / Peter McNeil (ed).
- Imprint
London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Additional Formats
Also issued in print.
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreement.
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McNeil, Peter, 1966-