Catherine Spooner

Fashioning Gothic bodies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 300g
• ISBN-13: 9780719064012
• ISBN-10: 0719064015
• Artikelnr.: 21362086

Autorenporträt

Catherine Spooner is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Acknowledgements List of figures 1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An
introduction to Gothic fashion 2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic
body and the politics of décolletage 3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning
the self in Victorian Gothic fiction 4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies,
cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic 5. Cosmo-Gothic: The
double and the single woman 6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the
perennial return of Goth 7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusion
Bibliography Fashion spreads Film and visual media Selected discography
Selected electronic sources