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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Richard WrigleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Berg Publishers Dimensions: Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.384kg ISBN: 9781859735091ISBN 10: 1859735096 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 01 October 2002 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsContents Abbreviations vii Introduction 1 1 Revolutionary Relics 13 2 Representing Authority: New Forms of Official Identity 59 3 Cockades: Badge Culture and its Discontents 97 4 Liberty Caps: From Roman Emblem to Radical Headgear 135 5 Sans-culottes: The Formation, Currency, and Representation of a Vestimentary Stereotype 187 6 Mistaken Identities: Disguise, Surveillance, and the Legibility of Appearances 229 Coda 259 Bibliography 275 Index 311Reviews'Richard Wrigley's achievement in this absorbing study is to delve behind the stereotypes through which the dress of theFrench revolutionary period has customarily been interpreted.Through giving detailed attention to such privileged items asthe cockade, the Phrygian bonnet and the revolutionary relic, he demonstrates conclusively that these features did not function as stable symbols, but revealed in their everyday use the deep contradictions of a society striving to reinvent itscivil identity. 'S Bann, University of Bristol'[A] fascinating study of the changing meaning of appearances from 1789 to the Napoleonic period.'London Review of Books'One could leaf through this work for a long time erudite, clearly constructed and illustrative, Richard Wrigley's book will bring a great deal to all who specialise in the cultural history of French Revolution.'Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise 'The Politics of Appearances assembles the most detailed 'Richard Wrigley's achievement in this absorbing study is to delve behind the stereotypes through which the dress of the French revolutionary period has customarily been interpreted. Through giving detailed attention to such privileged items as the cockade, the Phrygian bonnet and the revolutionary relic, he demonstrates conclusively that these features did not function as stable symbols, but revealed in their everyday use the deep contradictions of a society striving to reinvent its civil identity. ' S Bann, University of Bristol '[A] fascinating study of the changing meaning of appearances from 1789 to the Napoleonic period.' London Review of Books 'One could leaf through this work for a long time erudite, clearly constructed and illustrative, Richard Wrigley's book will bring a great deal to all who specialise in the cultural history of French Revolution.' Annales Historiques de la Revolution Francaise 'The Politics of Appearances assembles the most detailed Author InformationRichard Wrigley Principal Lecturer and Chair of Department of History of Art,Oxford Brookes University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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