Historical style : fashion and the new mode of history, 1740-1830 /

In Historical Style, Timothy Campbell argues that the eighteenth-century fashion press shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past and a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Campbell, Timothy, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
Series:Material texts.
Subjects:
1700-1899
Fashion > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Fashion > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Clothing and dress > Great Britain > History > 18th century.
Clothing and dress > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Beauty & Grooming.
Clothing and dress
Fashion
Great Britain
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Fashions past
  • The dress of the year. Modern fashion and comparative contemporaneity ; Portrait historicism and the dress of the times
  • The fictions of serial history. Hume, historical succession, and the dress of Rousseau ; Historical novelty and serial form ; Walter Scott's fashion systems ; William Godwin and the objects of historical fiction ; Beautiful historical experience.

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