Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads

ISBN-13: 9780367887087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Madeleine C. Seys

Opis

Double Threads: Fashion and Victorian Popular Literature is the first study to explore how fashion and dress function in the construction and representation of femininity and female sexuality in British popular literature from 1860 to 1900.

Recenzje

"By narrating a new story inter-weaving literature, dress culture and women’s voices, Madeleine Seys turns what is for many readers the ‘black and white’ Victorian world into colour."

- Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, UTS

"Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads (2017) brings into focus the significance of dress beyond the use of mere description or verisimilitude. Through illuminating study of popular Victorian literary heroines, Seys recasts their appearances and the narratives that they tell through the sartorial lens, revealing the symbolism of dress which may have been lost to the twenty-first-century reader. The study reveals the constructedness of femininity, but it also suggests the difficulties in establishing a definitive aesthetic reading. It is this ambiguity, the constant malleability, the weaving of social, cultural, political and economic discourses which renders the thread metaphor so timelessly apt."

- Alyson Hunt, Wilkie Collins Journal

Spis treści

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Sartorial and Narrative Threads

Chapter One: White Muslin

Chapter Two: Silk and Velvet

Chapter Three: The Paisley Shawl

Chapter Four: Tweed and Wool

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Dr. Madeline Seys is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide.