Author: Virginia Lee ZacheryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Feminine Modes and Mores of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Virginia Lee ZacheryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Nineteenth-Century Woman
Author: Sara DelamontPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415623200
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
This collection of papers draws on insights from social anthropology to illuminate historical material, and presents a set of closely integrated studies on the inter-connections between feminism and medical, social and educational ideas in the nineteenth century. Throughout the book evidence from both the USA and UK shows that feminists had to operate in a restricting and complex social environment in which the concept of "the lady" and the ideal of the saintly mother defined the nineteenth-century woman’s cultural and physical world.
Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
Author: Max von BoehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
Author: Max von BoehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Modes & Manners of the Nineteenth Century as Represented in the Pictures and Engravings of the Time
Author: Max von BoehnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Costume
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Accessories to Modernity
Author: Susan HinerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812205332
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteenth-century France. Considering how these fashionable objects were portrayed in fashion journals and illustrations, as well as fiction, the book explores the histories and cultural weight of the objects themselves and offers fresh readings of works by Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola, some of the most widely read novels of the period. As social boundaries were becoming more and more fluid in the nineteenth century, one effort to impose order over the looming confusion came, in the case of women, through fashion, and the fashion accessory thus became an ever more crucial tool through which social distinction could be created, projected, and maintained. Looking through the lens of fashion, Susan Hiner explores the interplay of imperialist expansion and domestic rituals, the assertion of privilege in the face of increasing social mobility, gendering practices and their relation to social hierarchies, and the rise of commodity culture and woman's paradoxical status as both consumer and object within it. Through her close focus on these luxury objects, Hiner reframes the feminine fashion accessory as a key symbol of modernity that bridges the erotic and proper, the domestic and exotic, and mass production and the work of art while making a larger claim about the "accessory" status—in terms of both complicity and subordination—of bourgeois women in nineteenth-century France. Women were not simply passive bystanders but rather were themselves accessories to the work of modernity from which they were ostensibly excluded.
English Women's Clothing in the Nineteenth Century
Author: C. Willett CunningtonPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486319636
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
Remarkably thorough descriptions, information about hundreds of fashions: morning dresses, riding outfits, bridal gowns, more. Also millinery, footwear, etc. Based on contemporary sources. Indispensable for costume and fashion students. Bibliography.
Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
Author: Dorri BeamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139489232
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
In this 2010 book, Dorri Beam presents an important contribution to nineteenth-century fiction by examining how and why a florid and sensuous style came to be adopted by so many authors. Discussing a diverse range of authors, including Margaret Fuller and Pauline Hopkins, Beam traces this style through a variety of literary endeavors and reconstructs the political rationale behind the writers' commitments to this form of prose. Beam provides both close readings of a number of familiar and unfamiliar works and an overarching account of the importance of this form of writing, suggesting new ways of looking at style as a medium through which gender can be signified and reshaped. Style, Gender, and Fantasy in Nineteenth Century American Women's Writing redefines our understanding of women's relation to aesthetics and their contribution to both American literary romanticism and feminist reform. This illuminating account provides valuable new insights for scholars of American literature and women's writing.
Modes And Manners Of The Nineteenth Century
Author: Max Von BoehnPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781020147784
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating volume examines the social and cultural norms of the 19th century through the lens of fashion and etiquette. With a wealth of illustrations and photographs, the book offers readers a glimpse into the world of Victorian society and the changing attitudes of the era. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
British Women and the Intellectual World in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Teresa BarnardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317171373
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Highlighting the remarkable women who found ways around the constraints placed on their intellectual growth, this collection of essays shows how their persistence opened up attributes of potent female imagination, radical endeavour, literary vigour, and self-education that compares well with male intellectual achievement in the long eighteenth century. Disseminating their knowledge through literary and documentary prose with unapologetic self-confidence, women such as Anna Barbauld, Anna Seward, Elizabeth Inchbald and Joanna Baillie usurped subjects perceived as masculine to contribute to scientific, political, philosophical and theological debate and progress. This multifaceted exploration goes beyond traditional readings of women’s creativity to add fresh, at times controversial, insights into the female view of the intellectual world. Bringing together leading experts on British women’s lives, work and writings, the volume seeks to rediscover women’s appropriations of masculine disciplines and to examine their interventions into the intellectual world. Through their engagement with a unique perspective on women’s lives and achievements, the essays make important contributions to the existing body of knowledge in this important area that will inform future scholarship.
