Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth Century America
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Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth Century America
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language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2011
Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth Century America written by and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
The Politics of Fashion in Eighteenth-Century America
The Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth Century America
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Author : Kate Haulman
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 2011-08-01
The Politics Of Fashion In Eighteenth Century America written by Kate Haulman and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-01 with History categories.
In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during a time when traditional hierarchies were in flux. In the see-and-be-seen port cities of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Charleston, fashion, a form of power and distinction, was conceptually feminized yet pursued by both men and women across class ranks. Haulman shows that elite men and women in these cities relied on fashion to present their status but also attempted to undercut its ability to do so for others. Disdain for others' fashionability was a means of safeguarding social position in cities where the modes of dress were particularly fluid and a way to maintain gender hierarchy in a world in which women's power as consumers was expanding. Concerns over gendered power expressed through fashion in dress, Haulman reveals, shaped the revolutionary-era struggles of the 1760s and 1770s, influenced national political debates, and helped to secure the exclusions of the new political order.
The Empire S New Clothes
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Author : Catherine Anna Haulman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The Empire S New Clothes written by Catherine Anna Haulman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with British categories.
Examines struggles over social, economic, and political power in eighteenth-century Philadelphia and New York City through the lens of fashion. Utilizing printed materials, merchant accounts and correspondence, personal documents, and costume histories, the author demonstrates that relations between the sexes served as a primary site for and an instrument in contests over cultural authority in British North America. Display and consumption helped forge social and romantic connections, yet also proved crucial to the smooth diplomatic and economic functioning of the British empire. The growing emphasis on cultivating inner worth rather than external trappings presented a paradox for colonial elites: How could one's character be known without some sort of display, be it adherence to fashion or its equally obvious repudiation? Such questions became particularly vexing during the imperial crises of the Revolutionary era, which vested Scottish Enlightenment and Quaker concepts of modesty, frugality, virtue, and sensibility with new political, anti-imperial meaning.
Luxury In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : M. Berg
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-01-11
Luxury In The Eighteenth Century written by M. Berg and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-11 with History categories.
'Luxury in the 18th Century' explores the political, economic, moral and intellectual effects of the production and consumption of luxury goods, and provides a broadly-based account from a variety of perspectives, addressing key themes of economic debate, material culture, the principles of art and taste, luxury as 'female vice' and the exotic.
Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe
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Author : Melissa Hyde
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Women Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth Century Europe written by Melissa Hyde and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Art categories.
The eighteenth century is recognized as a complex period of dramatic epistemic shifts that would have profound effects on the modern world. Paradoxically, the art of the era continues to be a relatively neglected field within art history. While women's private lives, their involvement with cultural production, the project of Enlightenment, and the public sphere have been the subjects of ground-breaking historical and literary studies in recent decades, women's engagement with the arts remains one of the richest and most under-explored areas for scholarly investigation. This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as "patronized" artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during the eighteenth century. By opening up the specific problems and conflicts inherent in women's artistic involvements from the perspective of what was at stake for the eighteenth-century women themselves, it also acts as a corrective to the generalizing and stereotyping about the prominence of those women, which is too often present in current day literature. Some essays are concerned with how women's involvement in the arts allowed them to fashion identities for themselves (whether national, political, religious, intellectual, artistic, or gender-based) and how such self-fashioning in turn enabled them to negotiate or intervene in the public domains of culture and politics where "The Woman Question" was so hotly debated. Other essays examine how men's patronage of women also served as a vehicle for self-fashioning for both artist and sponsor. Artists and patrons discussed include: Carriera; Queen Lovisa Ulrike and Chardin; the Bourbon Princesses Mlle Clermont, Mme Adélaïde and Nattier; the Duchess of Osuna and Goya; Marie-Antoinette and Vigée-Lebrun; Labille-Guiard; Queen Carolina of Naples, Prince Stanislaus Poniatowski of Poland and Kauffman; David and his students, Mesdames Benoist, Lavoisier and Mongez.
Dressing Global Bodies
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Author : Beverly Lemire
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Dressing Global Bodies written by Beverly Lemire and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with History categories.
Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one’s identity. This collection of essays explores how garments reflect the hierarchies of value, collective and personal inclinations, religious norms and conversions. Apparel is now recognized for its seminal role in global, colonial and post-colonial engagements and for its role in personal and collective expression. Patterns of exchange and commerce are discussed by contributing authors to analyse powerful and diverse colonial and postcolonial practices. This volume rejects assumptions surrounding a purportedly all-powerful Western metropolitan fashion system and instead aims to emphasize how diverse populations seized agency through the fashioning of dress. Dressing Global Bodies contributes to a growing scholarship considering gender and race, place and politics through the close critical analysis of dress and fashion; it is an indispensable volume for students of history and especially those interested in fashion, textiles, material culture and the body across a wide time frame.
A Peculiar Mixture
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Author : Jan Stievermann
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
A Peculiar Mixture written by Jan Stievermann and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with History categories.
Through innovative interdisciplinary methodologies and fresh avenues of inquiry, the nine essays collected in A Peculiar Mixture endeavor to transform how we understand the bewildering multiplicity and complexity that characterized the experience of German-speaking people in the middle colonies. They explore how the various cultural expressions of German speakers helped them bridge regional, religious, and denominational divides and eventually find a way to partake in America’s emerging national identity. Instead of thinking about early American culture and literature as evolving continuously as a singular entity, the contributions to this volume conceive of it as an ever-shifting and tangled “web of contact zones.” They present a society with a plurality of different native and colonial cultures interacting not only with one another but also with cultures and traditions from outside the colonies, in a “peculiar mixture” of Old World practices and New World influences. Aside from the editors, the contributors are Rosalind J. Beiler, Patrick M. Erben, Cynthia G. Falk, Marie Basile McDaniel, Philip Otterness, Liam Riordan, Matthias Schönhofer, and Marianne S. Wokeck.
Pretty Gentlemen
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Author : Peter McNeil
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Pretty Gentlemen written by Peter McNeil and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Design categories.
"The term "macaroni" was once as familiar a label as "punk" or "hipster" is today. In this handsomely illustrated book devoted to notable 18th-century British male fashion, award-winning author and fashion historian Peter McNeil brings together dress, biography, and historical events with the broader visual and material culture of the late 18th century. For thirty years, macaroni was a highly topical word, yielding a complex set of social, sexual, and cultural associations. Pretty Gentlemen is grounded in surviving dress, archival documents, and art spanning hierarchies and genres, from scurrilous caricature to respectful portrait painting. Celebrities hailed and mocked as macaroni include politician Charles James Fox, painter Richard Cosway, freed slave Julius "Soubise," and criminal parson Reverend Dodd. The style also rapidly spread to neighboring countries in cross-cultural exchange, while Horace Walpole, George III, and Queen Charlotte were active critics and observers of these foppish men."--Publisher's website.
The Beau Monde
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Author : Hannah Greig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-09-26
The Beau Monde written by Hannah Greig and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-26 with History categories.
The story of the world's first fashion-obsessed society in eighteenth-century London - and the colourful tales of extravagance, vanity, intrigue, and sexual indiscretion that accompanied it
The Clothes That Wear Us
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Author : Jessica Munns
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1999
The Clothes That Wear Us written by Jessica Munns and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Design categories.
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."--BOOK JACKET.