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This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 232
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
13 May 2004
ISBN: 9780719064012
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Catherine Spooner is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading
Dedication
Acknowledgements
List of figures
1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An introduction to Gothic fashion
2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic body and the politics of décolletage
3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic fiction
4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic
5. Cosmo-Gothic: The double and the single woman
6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the perennial return of Goth
7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusion
Bibliography
Fashion spreads
Film and visual media
Selected discography
Selected electronic sources