Details

Subject(s)

• Fashion writing—Italy—History—16th century [Browse]
• Fashion writing—Italy—History—17th century [Browse]
• Fashion in literature [Browse]

Series

• Visual culture in early modernity. [More in this series]
• Visual Culture in Early Modernity

Summary note

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.

Notes

• "An Ashgate book"--cover.
• First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Language note

English

Contents

• Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part I The Cultures of Fashion; 1 Moda and Moderno; 2 The Book of the Courtier and the Discourse on Fashion: Sprezzatura, Gender, "National Identity"; Part II The Fabric of Cities: Nations, Empire in Costume Books by Cesare Vecellio and Giacomo Franco; 3 Mapping the World: Dress in Cesare Vecellio's Costume Books (1590, 1598); 4 Power, History and Dress in Giacomo Franco's Costume Plates (1610-1614); Part III Beyond Sprezzatura: Fashion as Excess; 5 Sister Arcangela Tarabotti: Hair, Wigs and other Vices; 6 La Moda and its Technologies
• BibliographyIndex

ISBN

• 1-315-54619-1
• 1-134-78710-3
• 1-134-78703-0
• 1-4724-3603-2

OCLC

958106709

Doi

• 10.4324/9781315546193

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