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Covering a variety of genres and periods from medieval epic to
contemporary speculative fiction, Styling Texts explores the
fascinating ways in which dress performs in literature. Numerous
authors have made powerful-even radical-use of clothing and its
implications, and the essays collected here demonstrate how
scholarly attention to literary fashioning can contribute to a
deeper understanding of texts, their contexts, and their
innovations. These generative and engaging discussions focus on
issues such as fashion and anti-fashion; clothing reform;
transvestism; sartorial economics; style and the gaze;
transgressive modes; and class, gender, or race "passing." This is
the first academic volume to address such an extensive range of
texts, inviting consideration of how fashionable desires and
concerns not only articulate the aesthetics, subjectivities, and
controversies of a given culture, but also communicate across
temporal and spatial divisions. Styling Texts is an essential
resource for anyone interested in the artistic representations and
significations of dress.
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