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1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) : illustrations

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EBL-Schweitzer

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OldControl:muse9780812205336.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.

Contents

La Femme comme il (en) faut and the pursuit of distinction -- Unpacking the Corbeille de mariage -- "Cashmere fever": virtue and the domestication of the exotic -- Mademoiselle Ombrelle: shielding the fair sex -- Fan fetish: gender, nostalgia, and commodification -- Between good intentions and ulterior motives: the culture of handbags -- Epilogue. The feminine accessory.

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Print version record.

Summary

Examining fashion accessories in both novels and fashion discourses, Susan Hiner reframes the feminine accessory as a signifier of modernity and makes an important claim about the "accessory" status of women in nineteenth-century France: as both commodities and consumers, women were in fact "accessories to modernity."

Language

In English.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

Women -- France -- History -- 19th century.

Clothing and dress -- France -- History -- 19th century.

Fashion -- France -- History -- 19th century.

France -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.

Femmes -- France -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.

France -- Mœurs et coutumes -- 19e siècle.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.

Clothing and dress. (OCoLC)fst00864680

Fashion. (OCoLC)fst00921600

Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815

Women. (OCoLC)fst01176568

France. (OCoLC)fst01204289

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Genre/Form

History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Other Form:

Print version: Hiner, Susan. Accessories to modernity. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010008119

ISBN

9780812205336 (electronic bk.)

0812205332 (electronic bk.)

9780812242591 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

0812242599 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Standard No.

10.9783/9780812205336 doi