《Styling Texts》是2007年12月Cambria Press出版的圖書，作者是Cynthia Kuhn、Cindy Carlson。
基本介紹
- 中文名：Styling Texts
- 作者：Cynthia Kuhn、Cindy Carlson
- 出版社： Cambria Press
- 出版時間：2007年12月
- ISBN：9781934043837
- 副標題：Dress and Fashion in Literature
內容簡介,圖書目錄,作者簡介,
內容簡介
Covering a variety of genres and periods from medieval epic to contemporary speculative fiction, Styling Texts explores the fascinating ways in which dress performs in literature. Numerous authors have made powerful—even radical—use of clothing and its implications, and the essays collected here demonstrate how scholarly attention to literary fashioning can contribute to a deeper understanding of texts, their contexts, and their innovations. These generative and engaging discussions focus on issues such as fashion and anti-fashion; clothing reform; transvestism; sartorial economics; style and the gaze; transgressive modes; and class, gender, or race “passing.”
This is the first academic volume to address such an extensive range of texts, inviting consideration of how fashionable desires and concerns not only articulate the aesthetics, subjectivities, and controversies of a given culture, but also communicate across temporal and spatial divisions. Styling Texts is an essential resource for anyone interested in the artistic representations and significations of dress.
圖書目錄
Foreword (Suzanne Ferriss)
Introduction (Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson)
Chapter 1: The Clothes Make the Man: Transgressive Disrobing and Disarming in Beowulf (Elizabeth Howard)
Chapter 2: Chaucer’s Grisilde, Her Smock, and the Fashioning of a Character (Cindy Carlson)
Chapter 3: Fashion, Class, and Gender in Early Modern England: Staging Twelfth Night (Justin A. Joyce)
Chapter 4: "Whosoever loves not Picture, is injurious to Truth": Costumes and the Stuart Masque (Robert I. Lublin)
Chapter 5: "Intollerable excesse and bravery": On Dressing Up in Puritan New England (Ruth Mayer)
Chapter 6: "Let your Apparel manifest your Mind": Dress and the Female Body in Eighteenth-Century Literature (Jennie Batchelor)
Chapter 7: "Do you understand muslins, sir?": Fashioning Gender in Northanger Abbey (Judith Wylie)
Chapter 8: Mary Jane Holmes and the Triumph of Fashion in Ethelyn’s Mistake (Amy E. Cummins)
Chapter 9: "One—hundred—hours": Elizabeth Stuart Phelps' Dress Reform Writing (Roxanne Harde)
Chapter 10: A Heterogeneous Thing: Transvestism and Hybridity in Jane Eyre (Catherine A. Milton)
Chapter 11: Respectably Dressed, or Dressed for Respect: Moral Economies in the Novels of Victorian Women Writers (Tamara S. Wagner)
Chapter 12: Realism into Metaphor: Black and White Dress in the Fiction of Henry James (Clair Hughes)
Chapter 13: Fashion, Money, and Romance in Sister Carrie and The House of Mirth (Jessica Lyn Van Slooten)
Chapter 14: "Nothing could be seen whole or read from start to finish": Transvestism and Imitation in Orlando and Nightwood (Rachel Warburton)
Chapter 15: Ecological Dress: Art, Pedagogy, and Ambiguity in the Work of C.M. Barker (Carole Scott)
Chapter 16: No Slaves to Fashion: Designing Women in the Fiction of Jessie Fauset and Anzia Yezierska (Lori Harrison-Kahan)
Chapter 17: "Be what you want": Clothing and Subjectivity in Toni Morrison’s Jazz (Natalie Stillman-Webb)
Chapter 18: "Spiritual Garments": Fashioning the Victorian Séance in Sarah Waters’ Affinity (Catherine Spooner)
Chapter 19: Fabricating Desires: The Transformation of the Quinces Tradition in Multicultural Narratives (Rafael Miguel Montes)
Chapter 20: "Clothes would only confuse them": Sartorial Culture in Oryx and Crake (Cynthia Kuhn)
Contributor Notes
Appendix: Selected Resources
作者簡介
Cynthia Kuhn is Associate Professor of English at Metro State in Colorado. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Denver. Her writing has appeared in McSweeney’s Quarterly, Copper Nickel, Literary Mama, and other publications, and she is the author of Self-Fashioning in Margaret Atwood’s Fiction: Dress, Culture and Identity (2005).
Cindy Carlson is Professor of English at Metropolitan State College in Denver, Colorado. She is the co-editor of Gender Reconstructions: Pornography and Perversions in Literature and Culture (2002) and Constructions of Widowhood and Virginity in the Middle Ages (1999). She has also published articles on medieval drama and Shakespeare.
