Description: Further DetailsTitle: Historical StyleCondition: NewSubtitle: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183ISBN-10: 0812248325EAN: 9780812248326ISBN: 9780812248326Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 08/19/2016Description: Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.In a panoptic sweep, Historical Style brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the distinction between the past and the present, created an expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to trace eighteenth-century historicism, Historical Style draws upon the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain have often neglected.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Timothy CampbellGenre: Fashion & DesignBook Series: Material TextsTopic: Society & Culture, History, Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Historical Style
Title: Historical Style
Subtitle: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183
ISBN-10: 0812248325
EAN: 9780812248326
ISBN: 9780812248326
Release Date: 08/19/2016
Release Year: 2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Fashion & Design
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 376 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Historical Style : Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Year: 2016
Subject: Fashion & Accessories, Fashion & Style, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Height: 1.1 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22 Oz
Author: Timothy Campbell
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Design, Self-Help
Item Length: 9.3 in
Series: Material Texts
Item Width: 6.4 in
Format: Hardcover
