TAILORING IDENTITIES IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE. by CHIARA BATTISTI

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Figures/Plates -- Fil Rouge: An Introduction -- ABC of Fashion: A Short Fashion Glossary -- 1 Wearable Texts: Critical Approaches to Fashion, Fiction and Culture -- 1.1 The Anatomy of Fashion: Fashion as Literature -- 1.2 Fashion between Imitation and Class Distinction: Classical Sociological Theories and Beyond -- 1.3 Fashion as Language: Semiotic and Semiological Perspectives -- 1.4 Flügel's Psychological Perspective: Between Decoration and "Great Masculine Renunciation" -- 2 Fashion in Victorian Literature approaching the topic, or Laying out our Pattern -- 2.1 The Sartorial Context: From Hogarth to the Victorian Episteme -- 2.2 (Victorian) Clothes as Texts -- 3 Fashion and Femininity: Between "Frivolous Distinction" and "Powerful Fiction" -- 3.1 Stitching and Writing, Mending and Reading: Victorian Dual Literacy -- 3.2 Chromatic Nuances, Fabric's Thickness and Sartorial Selves -- 3.3 "Reader, I married him" -- 4 Refashioning Masculinities: Fifty Shades of Black -- 4.1 Gentlemanliness: All in the Detail -- 4.2 Fashioning the Would-Be Gentleman -- 4.3 "Dandy of Intellect, Dandy of Manners, Dandy of Dress" -- Bibliography.…”
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Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature for the ten years 1965-1974 /

Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature for the thirteen years, 1932-1944.

Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature for the ten years 1955-1964.

Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature for the ten years 1945-1954.

Bibliographies of studies in Victorian literature for the ten years 1975-1984 /

Book destruction from the medieval to the contemporary /

Table of Contents: “…Burning sex subjects : books, homophobia and the Nazi destruction of the Institute of Sexual Sciences in Berlin / Heike Bauer -- Burning to read : Ben Jonson's library fire of 1623 / Adam Smyth -- From books to Skoob, or, Media theory with a circular saw / Gill Partington -- The complete works of Franz Kafka burned : an interview with Ross Birrell / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Ross Birrell -- Belligerent literacy, bookplates, and graffiti : Dorothy Helbarton's book / Anthony Bale -- Doctoring Victorian literature -- A Humument : an interview with Tom Phillips / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Tom Phillips -- Miss Cathy's riven th' back off 'Th' helmet uh salvation' : representing book destruction in mid-Victorian print culture / Stephen Colclough -- Waste matters : Charles Dickens's Our mutual friend and nineteenth-century book recycling / Heather Tilley -- Aesthetics of book destruction / Kate Flint -- Kindle : recycling and the future of the book : an interview with Nicola Dale / Adam Smyth, Gill Partington and Nicola Dale.…”
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Print culture and the Blackwood tradition, 1805-1930 /

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