Writing Fashion in Early Modern Italy
Subtitle: From Sprezzatura to Satire
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group; Routledge
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781472411709
Subjects: Authorship; Italy, history
Description: "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."--P. [i].