The clothes that wear us
Subtitle: essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture
By: edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards.
Contributors: Munns, Jessica, 1949-; Richards, Penny, 1946-
Publisher: University of Delaware Press; Associated University Presses
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Newark; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Clothing and dress in literature.; Literature, Modern -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.; Literature and society -- History -- 18th century.; Costume.
Description: "In these essays, ranging in period from the 1670s to the 1790s, and in place from England to Ireland, France, Germany, America, and Barbados, we can trace ways in which dress articulates, literally in material terms, transformations in the economic conditions, social relations, and ideological constructions of the culture of the eighteenth century.

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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.