This innovative book explores the role played by clothing in the
discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between
the veils, masks and disguises of Gothic convention, and
historically-specific fashion discourses, from the revealing
chemise-dress popularized by Queen Marie Antoinette to the
subcultural style of contemporary Goths. In so doing it sheds new
light on the cultural construction of Gothic bodies. Taking an
original interdisciplinary approach, Catherine Spooner offers
readings of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts in the
context of fashion from the 1790s to the 1990s. Progressing
chronologically from the novels of Radcliffe and Lewis through the
"sensation" fiction of the Victorian period and the Gothic fiction
of the fin-de-siecle, Fashioning Gothic Bodies culminates with
twentieth-century film and the supposed resurgence of the Gothic in
pre-Millennial culture.
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