Fashion and Authorship
Literary Production and Cultural Style from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Samenvatting
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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<p>Chapter 2. Pastoral Authorship and Porcelain Figurines: Pope’s Elite Aesthetic and the Fashionable Decorative Commodity by Lauren Miskin</p>
<p>Chapter 3. "Magnificent as well as Singular": Hester Thrale's Polynesian Court Dress of 1781 by Serena Dyer</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Becoming Somebody: Refashioning the Body Politic in Mary Robinson’s Nobody by Terry F. Robinson</p>
<p>Chapter 5. Nobleman Incognito: Byron’s Albanian Dress by Gerald Egan</p>
<p>Chapter 6. Fraser’s Magazine and the Instability of Literary Fashion by Richard Salmon</p>
<p>Chapter 7. Fashioning Femininity in the 1840s: Charlotte Brontë and Villette by Birgitta Berglund</p>
<p>Chapter 8. No Room for the ‘Woman of Fashion’: Male Authorship, Anti-fashion, and Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White by Loretta Clayton</p>
<p>Chapter 9. The Writer and the Couturière: Authorship and Creative Industry in the 1870s by Patricia Zakreski</p>
<p>Chapter 10. ‘Down to the last button . . . in the fashion of the hour’: Virginia Woolf and the Writer of Modern Fiction by Randi Koppen</p>
<p> Chapter 11. Fashioning Modern and Modernist Authorship: Rebecca West in the 1920s and 1930s by Margaret D. Stetz </p>
<p> Chapter 12. Fashion as Self-Authorship, Escape from Fascist Terror, and Witness Testimony by Phyllis Lassner</p>
<p>Chapter 13. Fantasies of Femininity Redressed: Angela Carter’s Authorial Self-Fashioning by Kimberly J. Lau </p>
<p>Chapter 14. “Style description: / Provenance: / Period:”: Martin Margiela, Fashion Authorship and Romantic Literary History by Timothy Campbell</p>
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