Accessories to modernity : fashion and the feminine in nineteenth-century France / Susan Hiner.
Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fac...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©2010.
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| Series: | EBL-Schweitzer.
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| Summary: | Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fact "accessories to modernity." |
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| Item Description: | OldControl:muse9780812205336. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812205336 0812205332 |