Fashion in fiction : text and clothing in literature, film, and television

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CONTENTS Introduction PART ONE: FASHION TALES AND THE VISUAL IMAGINATION 1. The Question of Costume: Dressing for Success in the 19th century Novel. Claire Hughes 2. A Hovering Space: The Mystery of the Fashion Photograph Margaret Maynard, University of Queensland 3. Fashion and the Art of Class Deception: Clothing and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction Rosy Aindow, University of Nottingham 4. Grisettes, cocottes, and bohemes: Fashion and Fiction in Octave Tassaert's 'Boudoirs et mansardes' (1828) and 'Les amants et les epoux' (1829) Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas 5. Fair Exchange: Novelist as Stylist, Designer as Storyteller Sophia Errey, RMIT, 6. The Fashioned World of Andrea Zittel Tim Laurence, University of Technology, Sydney PART TWO: CROSSING CULTURES, QUEERING CULTURES 7. Junichiro Tanizaki's 'Naomi' and the Power of Foreign Clothing in Modern Japanese Fiction Toby Slade, Independent Academic, Tokyo 8. A Conceptual Framework for Brand Storytelling: Creating Context and Meaning for Cargo Pants. Joseph Hancock, Drexel University 9. Double Brides: Narratives of Desire in the recent 'Wedding Dresses' of lesbian couples. Catherine Harper (University of Brighton, U.K) 10. 'Collection L' Maja Gunn, Stockholm University PART THREE: FASHION'S TEXTUAL IDENTITIES 11. Aesthetic Movement Fashion Reform: Dress and Interiors Marilyn Casto, Virginia Tech University 12. Holly Golightly and the fashioning of the waif. Gabrielle Finanne, University of New South Wales 13. Becoming Neo: Costume, Gadgets and Transforming Masculinity in 'The Matrix' films. Sarah Gilligan, Hartlepool College of Further Education 14. Textile as Sign of Barthes' Bliss Concept within the Texture of Nietzsche, Dagmar Venohr, University of Potsdam Notes Bibliography Index

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