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Fashioning gothic bodies / Catherine Spooner.
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TextPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2004.Description: 224 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmISBN: - 0719064015 (pbk.)
- 9780719064012 (pbk.)
- 746.9 SPO
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Day Loan | LSAD Library Short Loan | 746.9 SPO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Checked out | 17/01/2022 | 39002100435230 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Figures (p. vi)
- Acknowledgements (p. vii)
- 1 Curtain'd in mysteries: an introduction to Gothic fashion (p. 1)
- 2 Revolution and revealment: the Gothic body and the politics of decolletage (p. 23)
- 3 Clothes make the man: fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic (p. 46)
- 4 Mysteries of the visible: dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic (p. 86)
- 5 Cosmo-Gothic: the double and the single woman (p. 128)
- 6 Undead fashion: 1990s style and the perennial return of Goth (p. 159)
- 7 Refashioning Gothic bodies: an anti-conclusion (p. 200)
- Bibliography (p. 204)
- Index (p. 219)