Title: Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England
Description: Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to them. This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events, sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the visual arts and literature.
Subjects: Ballads, english, history and criticism, English poetry, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Popular culture, great britain, English Ballads, History and criticism, English poetry, Broadsides, Fashion in literature, Clothing and dress in literature, Clothing and dress, History, Popular culture and literature