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OverviewWe know that way we dress says a lot about us. It’s drilled into us by our parents as children, as adults throughout our working lives, and eternally from the culture surrounding us. Our dress tells the outside world of the culture and era we come from to our social status within that culture. Our dress can be telling of our political views, religious beliefs, sexuality and countless other identifying traits that we can keep hidden or show to the world by our choice of what to wear when heading venturing out. This was absolutely true, famously so, in the Victorian Era in which men and women alike wore their status on their often lavish, embellished sleeves. In her new book, Dr. Madeleine Seyes explores Victorian culture through the lens of fashion in her new book, Double Threads: Fashion and Victorian Popular Literature, which sits at the intersection of the fields of Victorian literary studies, dress and material cultural studies, feminist literary criticism, and gender and sexuality studies. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Madeleine C. SeysPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367887087ISBN 10: 0367887088 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 10 December 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Acknowledgments Introduction: Sartorial and Narrative Threads Chapter One: White Muslin Chapter Two: Silk and Velvet Chapter Three: The Paisley Shawl Chapter Four: Tweed and Wool Conclusion Bibliography IndexReviewsBy narrating a new story inter-weaving literature, dress culture and women's voices, Madeleine Seys turns what is for many readers the 'black and white' Victorian world into colour. -- Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, UTS By narrating a new story inter-weaving literature, dress culture and women's voices, Madeleine Seys turns what is for many readers the 'black and white' Victorian world into colour. - Peter McNeil, Professor of Design History, UTS Fashion and Narrative in Victorian Popular Literature: Double Threads (2017) brings into focus the significance of dress beyond the use of mere description or verisimilitude. Through illuminating study of popular Victorian literary heroines, Seys recasts their appearances and the narratives that they tell through the sartorial lens, revealing the symbolism of dress which may have been lost to the twenty-first-century reader. The study reveals the constructedness of femininity, but it also suggests the difficulties in establishing a definitive aesthetic reading. It is this ambiguity, the constant malleability, the weaving of social, cultural, political and economic discourses which renders the thread metaphor so timelessly apt. - Alyson Hunt, Wilkie Collins Journal Author InformationDr. Madeline Seys is a lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at The University of Adelaide. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |