Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England

Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads

Clare Backhouse (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2017
I.B. Tauris (Verlag)
978-1-78453-837-8 (ISBN)

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Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to them.This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events, sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the visual arts and literature. In this context, Clare Backhouse argues, seventeenth-century ballads increasingly celebrated the proliferation of print and fashionable dress, envisioning new roles for men and women in terms of fashion consumption and its importance to national prosperity. The book demonstrates how the hitherto overlooked but extensive source material that these ballads offer can enrich the histories of dress, art and culture in early modern England.

Clare Backhouse received her Doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has taught undergraduates at Oxford University and MA students at the Courtauld and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is a contributor to Printed Images in Early Modern Britain (2010).

List of Illustrations

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Commodities of Print and Dress

2Ballad Comment on Dress

3Ballad Pictures: Conventions of Clothes and the Body

4Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations I:
Masculinity, Fashion and the Defence of the Nation

5Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations II:
Female Bodies, Feminine Fashions and Economic Benefits

Epilogue

Bibliography

Acknowledgements
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	18.07.2017
Zusatzinfo	5 bw integrated
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-78453-837-X / 178453837X
ISBN-13	978-1-78453-837-8 / 9781784538378
Zustand	Neuware