Historical Style : : Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830 /

Historical Style : : Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830 / / Timothy Campbell.

Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growi...

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Campbell, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Material Texts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (376 p.) :; 54 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction. Fashions Past
  • Part I. The Dress of the Year
  • Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity
  • Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times
  • Part II. The Fictions of Serial History
  • Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau
  • Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form
  • Chapter 5. Walter Scott's Fashion Systems
  • Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction
  • Coda. Beautiful Historical Experience
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments

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