Writing fashion in early modern Italy: from sprezzatura to satire

The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using l...

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Main Author: Paulicelli, Eugenia 1958- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham [u.a.] Ashgate 2014
Series:Visual culture in early modernity
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Summary:The first comprehensive study on the role of Italian fashion and Italian literature, this book emphasizes the centrality of Italian literature and culture for understanding modern theories of fashion and gauging its impact in the shaping of codes of civility and taste in Europe and the West. Using literature to uncover what has been called the 'animatedness of clothing,' the author explores the political meanings that clothing produces in public space
Physical Description:XV, 261 S., [4] Bl. Ill.
ISBN:9781472411709

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