Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture: Series Number 38: Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Professor Ann Rosalind Jones
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Paperback. This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture. Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture. Num Pages: 386 pages, 58 b/w illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JFCK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 175 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or woman. In Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory Jones and Stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics and clothing were central to the making of Renaissance culture. Their examination explores the role of clothes as forms of memory transmitted from master to servant, from friend to friend, from lover to lover. This 2001 book offers ... Read more
During the late sixteenth century 'fashion' first took on the sense of restless change in contrast to the older sense of fashioning or making. As fashionings, clothes were perceived as material forms of personal and social identity which made the man or woman. In Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory Jones and Stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics and clothing were central to the making of Renaissance culture. Their examination explores the role of clothes as forms of memory transmitted from master to servant, from friend to friend, from lover to lover. This 2001 book offers ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
386
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature & Culture
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521786638
SKU
V9780521786638
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Reviews for Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture: Series Number 38: Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
'In their beautifully conceived, well made, and copiously illustrated book, Jones and Stallybrass think out what it might mean to put on clothes in Renaissance society, on English stages, and for portraiture ... They have written a brilliant, multidisciplinary, and thoroughly original book that is a pleasure to read.' Modern Language Association 'This superb book reinterprets the construction ... Read more