The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture, edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards

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The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture, edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards

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essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture

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edited by Jessica Munns and Penny Richards

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• The clothes that wear us : essays on dressing and transgressing in eighteenth-century culture

Publication

• Newark, University of Delaware Press, London, Associated University Presses, ©1999

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents

The clothes that wear us / Jessica Munns and Penny Richards -- Performing nations in the Restoration Stage: Wycherley's Gentleman dancing-master / Cynthia Lowenthal -- The sublime, the beautiful, "The Siddons" / Laura J. Rosenthal -- Hester Santlow's Harlequine: dance, dress, status, and gender in the London stage, 1706-1734 / Elizabeth Miller Lewis -- Performing thirdness: Goethe on the Roman stage / Catriona MacLeod -- The masquerade of colonial identity in France: Brooke's Emily Montague (1769) / Joe Snader -- Sophie La Roche's History of Lady Sophia Sternheim: who is dressing and writing the heroine? / Helga Schutte Watt -- Freke in men's clothes: transgression and the carnivalesque in Edgeworth's Belinda / Eleanor Ty -- Masquerade as mode in the French fashion print / Sarah R. Cohen -- Designing women: the fabric of gender politics in the Tattler and Spectator papers / Shawn Lisa Maurer -- Putting on Irish "stuff": the politics of Anglo-Irish cross-dressing / Helen Burke -- Cultural cross-dressing: the colorful case of the Caribbean Creole / Erin Skye Mackie -- "With nosegays and gloves.../So trim and so gay": clothing and public execution in the eighteenth century / Jessica Munns -- Dress, power, and crossing the Atlantic: figuring the Black Exodus in Sierra Leone in the late eighteenth century / John Saillant -- Reading dress, reading culture: the trial of Joseph Gerrald, 1794 / Nolan Marchand -- Afterword / Deborah C. Payne

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40126839

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25 cm

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362 pages

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9780874136722

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98047338

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