The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture
"In these essays, ranging in period from the 1670s to the 1790s, and in place from England to Ireland, France, Germany, America, and Barbados, we can trace ways in which dress articulates, literally in material terms, transformations in the economic conditions, social relations, and ideological constructions of the culture of the eighteenth century. Throughout the collection, there is an emphasis on the ways in which clothing could function to appropriate, explore, subvert, and assert alternative identities and possibilities."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1999
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, London, ©1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc
362 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780874136722, 0874136725
40126839
The clothes that wear us / Jessica Munns and Penny Richards
Performing nations in the Restoration Stage: Wycherley's Gentleman dancing-master / Cynthia Lowenthal
The sublime, the beautiful, "The Siddons" / Laura J. Rosenthal
Hester Santlow's Harlequine: dance, dress, status, and gender in the London stage, 1706-1734 / Elizabeth Miller Lewis
Performing thirdness: Goethe on the Roman stage / Catriona MacLeod
The masquerade of colonial identity in France: Brooke's Emily Montague (1769) / Joe Snader
Sophie La Roche's History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: who is dressing and writing the heroine? / Helga Schutte Watt
Freke in men's clothes: transgression and the carnivalesque in Edgeworth's Belinda / Eleanor Ty
Masquerade as mode in the French fashion print / Sarah R. Cohen
Designing women: the fabric of gender politics in the Tattler and Spectator papers / Shawn Lisa Maurer
Putting on Irish "stuff": the politics of Anglo-Irish cross-dressing / Helen Burke
Cultural cross-dressing: the colorful case of the Caribbean Creole / Erin Skye Mackie
"With nosegays and gloves ... /So trim and so gay": clothing and public execution in the eighteenth century / Jessica Munns
Dress, power, and crossing the Atlantic: figuring the Black Exodus in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century / John Saillant
Reading dress, reading culture: the trial of Joseph Gerrald, 1794 / Nolan Marchand
Afterword / Deborah C. Payne