Fashion and Literature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781009300407)

Fashion has shaped literary study in often under-recognized ways. As this book shows, fashion has been a long-standing subject, material resource, and system influencing literary scholarship. In tracing those dynamics, the book defines and advances the field of fashion and literature as it cuts across conventional historical and linguistic research areas. Featuring eighteen chapters by leading scholars, it describes the state of the field and introduces new topics and questions. The chapters focus on the medieval period to the present and include accounts of how new fashions shaped new literary genres; how fashion influenced conceptions of history; and how fashion and literature together produced ideas of gender, sexuality, race, personhood, modernity, and freedom. They also examine the role that literary representations of garments have played in colonial and national histories and in artistic and political movements, including feminist, anticolonial, and abolitionist struggles.

Author: Elizabeth M. Sheehan
ISBN-10: 1009300407
ISBN-13: 9781009300407
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/18/2026
Pages: 390
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.52lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d