Fashioning gothic bodies
By: Catherine Spooner.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Manchester; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780719064005; 9780719064012
Subjects: Clothing and dress -- Social aspects; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- Great Britain -- History; Clothing and dress in literature; Costume -- Great Britain -- History; Fashion -- Great Britain -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [204]-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Curtain'd in mysteries: an introduction to Gothic fashion; title: Revolution and revealment: the Gothic body and the politics of décolletage; title: Clothes make the man: fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic; title: Mysteries of the visible: dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic; title: Cosmo-Gothic: the double and the single woman; title: Undead fashion: 1990s style and the perennial return of Goth; title: Refashioning Gothic bodies: an anti-conclusion.