Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory

Klappentext This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture. Zusammenfassung In this 2001 book! Jones and Stallybrass argue that the making and transmission of fabrics and clothing were central to Renaissance culture. Their examination offers a close reading of literary texts! paintings! textiles! theatrical documents! and ephemera to reveal how clothing and textiles were crucial to gender! sexuality! and religion in the Renaissance. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Introduction: fashion, fetishism and memory in early modern England and Europe; Part I. Material Subjects: 1. The currency of clothing; 2. Composing the subject: making portraits; 3. Yellow starch: fabrications of the Jacobean court; Part II. Gendered Habits: 4. Arachne's web: Velazquez's Las Hilanderas; 5. The fate of spinning: Penelope and the Three Fates; 6. The needle and the pen: needlework and the appropriation of printed texts; Part III. Staging Clothes: 7. The circulation of clothes and the making of the English theater; 8. Transvestism and the 'body beneath': speculating on the boy actor; 9. (In)alienable possessions: Griselda, clothing and the exchange of women; 10. Of ghosts and garments: the materiality of memory on the Renaissance stage; Conclusion: the end(s) of livery; Notes; Index.

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• Authors: Ann Rosalind Jones, Ann Rosalind Stallybrass Jones, Professor Ann Rosalind Jones, Professor Ann Rosalind Stallybrass Jones, Peter Stallybrass
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2001
• EAN: 9780521786638
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78663-8
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in Renaissan; Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies