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"This study explores the role played by clothing in the discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between the veils, masks and disguises of gothic convention and historically specific fashion discourses, from the revealing chemise-dress popularized by Queen Marie Antoinette to the subcultural style of contemporary goths. In so doing it sheds light on the cultural construction of gothic bodies. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, Catherine Spooner offers readings of literary, cinematic and popular cultural texts in the context of fashion from the 1790s to the 1990s. Progressing chronologically from the novels of Radcliffe and Lewis through the ""sensation"" fiction of the Victorian period and the gothic fiction of the ""fin-de-siecle"", the text culminates with 20th-century film and the supposed resurgence of the gothic in pre-millennial culture. This book should be of interest to students working on the gothic in literary, film and cultural studies, as well as to literary scholars and fashion theoreticians."

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Author:   Catherine Spooner ,  Rebecca Mortimer
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.277kg
ISBN:  

9780719064012

ISBN 10:   0719064015
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   13 May 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Dedication Acknowledgements List of figures 1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An introduction to Gothic fashion 2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic body and the politics of décolletage 3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic fiction 4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic 5. Cosmo-Gothic: The double and the single woman 6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the perennial return of Goth 7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusion Bibliography Fashion spreads Film and visual media Selected discography Selected electronic sources -- .

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Catherine Spooner is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading

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