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One view of the author in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century
Britain held that poetic genius could reside in the lady or
gentleman of fashion. Fashioning Authorship in the Long Eighteenth
Century examines this cultural trope of genius-as-fashionista by
applying an innovative mix of approaches-book history,
Enlightenment and twentieth-century philosophy, visual studies, and
material analyses of fashions in books and in dress-to specific
editions of Alexander Pope, Mary Robinson and Lord Byron. In its
material analyses of these books, Fashioning Authorship looks
closely at bindings, letterforms, engravings, newspaper
advertisements, correspondence, and other ephemera. In its
theoretical approaches, it takes up the interventions of Locke and
Kant in connection with the visual theories of Richardson, Hogarth,
and Reynolds. These investigations point ultimately to a profound
connection between Enlightenment formulations of subjectivity,
genius, and fashion, a link that is relevant to the construction of
celebrity in our own cultural moment.
Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused
primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary
texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her
shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with
modishness, stylishness, fashion? The essays in this book explore
these and other questions as they look at authors from the
eighteenth century through the postmodern and digital eras,
cultural producers who were also men and women of fashion:
Alexander Pope, Hester Thrale, Mary Robinson, Lord Byron, William
Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Oliphant,
Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Trudi Kanter, Angela Carter, and
Martin Margiela. The essays collected here ultimately converge upon
a fundamental question: what happens to our notions of timeless
literature when authorship itself is implicated in the transient
and the temporary, the cycles and materials of fashion? "Gerald
Egan's provocative introduction to this exciting new book poses a
bold question: How are authorship and literature - so often linked
to ideas of transcendence - implicated in the transient trends and
stuff of fashion? The thirteen chapters that follow track
authorship's complex implication in the discourses and materiality
of fashion and fashionable goods from the eighteenth to the
twentieth centuries. Wide-ranging in discipline and chronology, yet
forensically focused and carefully argued, this book makes a
striking and wonderfully original contribution to studies of
authorship, celebrity and material culture." - Dr Jennie Batchelor,
Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies,University of Kent, UK
Studies of fashion and literature in recent decades have focused
primarily on representations of clothing and dress within literary
texts. But what about the author? How did he dress? What where her
shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with
modishness, stylishness, fashion? The essays in this book explore
these and other questions as they look at authors from the
eighteenth century through the postmodern and digital eras,
cultural producers who were also men and women of fashion:
Alexander Pope, Hester Thrale, Mary Robinson, Lord Byron, William
Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Oliphant,
Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Trudi Kanter, Angela Carter, and
Martin Margiela. The essays collected here ultimately converge upon
a fundamental question: what happens to our notions of timeless
literature when authorship itself is implicated in the transient
and the temporary, the cycles and materials of fashion? "Gerald
Egan's provocative introduction to this exciting new book poses a
bold question: How are authorship and literature - so often linked
to ideas of transcendence - implicated in the transient trends and
stuff of fashion? The thirteen chapters that follow track
authorship's complex implication in the discourses and materiality
of fashion and fashionable goods from the eighteenth to the
twentieth centuries. Wide-ranging in discipline and chronology, yet
forensically focused and carefully argued, this book makes a
striking and wonderfully original contribution to studies of
authorship, celebrity and material culture." - Dr Jennie Batchelor,
Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies,University of Kent, UK
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