Fashion and Authorship: Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9783030269005 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 352 str.

Gerald Egan

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Chapter 1. Introduction by Gerald Egan

Chapter 2. Pastoral Authorship and Porcelain Figurines: Pope’s Elite Aesthetic and the Fashionable Decorative Commodity by Lauren Miskin

Chapter 3. "Magnificent as well as Singular": Hester Thrale's Polynesian Court Dress of 1781 by Serena Dyer

Chapter 4. Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson’s Nobody by Terry F. Robinson

Chapter 5. Nobleman Incognito: Byron’s Albanian Dress by Gerald Egan

Chapter 6. Fraser’s Magazine and the Instability of Literary Fashion by Richard Salmon

Chapter 7. Fashioning Femininity in the 1840s: Charlotte Brontë and Villette by Birgitta Berglund

Chapter 8. No Room for the ‘Woman of Fashion’: Male Authorship, Anti-fashion, and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White by Loretta Clayton

Chapter 9. The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s by Patricia Zakreski

Chapter 10. ‘Down to the last button . . . in the fashion of the hour’: Virginia Woolf and the Writer of Modern Fiction by Randi Koppen

 Chapter 11. Fashioning Modern and Modernist Authorship: Rebecca West in the 1920s and 1930s by Margaret D. Stetz

 Chapter 12. Fashion as Self-Authorship, Escape from Fascist Terror, and Witness Testimony by Phyllis Lassner

Chapter 13. Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter’s Authorial Self-Fashioning by Kimberly J. Lau

Chapter 14. “Style description: / Provenance: / Period:”:  Martin Margiela, Fashion Authorship and Romantic Literary History by Timothy Campbell

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Gerald Egan teaches in the English Department at California State University, Long Beach. His book, Fashioning Authorship: Stylish Books of Poetic Genius, was published in 2016.

                     

Blurb

In studies of fashion and literature, the trend over the past two decades has been to focus on clothing and dress within literary texts. This book raises a provocative question: What about the author? How did he dress? What where her shopping practices and predilections? What were his alliances with modishness, stylishness, fashion? Essays in this collection examine men and women of fashion, authors of the eighteenth century (Alexander Pope, Hesther Thrale), the Romantic period (Mary Robinson, Lord Byron), the Victorian period (William Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Margaret Oliphant), the twentieth century (Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, Trudy Kanter), and the postmodern era (Angela Carter and Martin Margiela), converging ultimately 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 13 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