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Fashioning the Victorians - A Critical Sourcebook (Hardcover)
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Fashioning the Victorians - A Critical Sourcebook (Hardcover)
Series: Dress, Body, Culture
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Offering a unique anthology of primary texts, this sourcebook opens
a window on the writing that shaped and mirrored Victorian fashion,
taking us from corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent 'New
Women'. A user-friendly collection that provides a solid grounding
in the fashion history of the nineteenth century, it brings
together for the first time sources that trace the evolution of
dress and the social, cultural and political discourses that
influenced it. Featuring seminal writings by authors and
commentators such as Oscar Wilde, Thorstein Veblen and Sarah
Stickney Ellis, plus satirical cartoons, illustrations and fashion
plates from key sources such as Punch magazine, it combines primary
texts and illustrations with accessible explanatory notes to offer
a wide-ranging overview of the period for both students and
researchers. Each section opens with an introduction that examines
the major trends in Victorian clothing - and the material,
economic, scientific and cultural forces driving those trends -
situating the texts in the pressing social anxieties and pleasures
of the time. Exploring both menswear and womenswear, and key topics
such as corsetry, dress reform and mourning, Mitchell extends her
analysis into interdisciplinary fields including gender studies and
literature, and guides the reader with a timeline, glossary and
further readings.
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