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Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England - Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads (Hardcover)
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Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England - Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads (Hardcover)
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Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred
years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the
seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming
song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in
the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as
being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to
them.This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of
these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the
ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events,
sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the
visual arts and literature. In this context, Clare Backhouse
argues, seventeenth-century ballads increasingly celebrated the
proliferation of print and fashionable dress, envisioning new roles
for men and women in terms of fashion consumption and its
importance to national prosperity. The book demonstrates how the
hitherto overlooked but extensive source material that these
ballads offer can enrich the histories of dress, art and culture in
early modern England.
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