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Item Details
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THE POLITICS OF APPEARANCES
REPRESENTATIONS OF DRESS IN REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE |
| By: |
Richard Wrigley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£29.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859735096 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859735091 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2002 |
| Pages: |
328 |
| Description: |
In the turbulent political and social landscape of Revolutionary France, dress played a major role in defining and displaying new identities. Drawing on a wide range of documentary and visual sources, this book offers a vivid picture of the highly charged politics of Revolutionary appearances. |
| Synopsis: |
In the turbulent political and social landscape of Revolutionary France, dress played a major role in defining and displaying new identities. What people wore was, in fact, a vital symbol of their allegiances and beliefs. Drawing on a wide range of documentary and visual sources, this book offers a vivid picture of the highly charged politics of Revolutionary appearances. The author explores the dynamic complexity of the new socio-political world, where the identification of who stood for what was such an urgent, if vexed, issue: where identical items of dress could stand for opposing political ideologies, where a variety of institutions - from local societies to the national assembly - tried to define the meanings associated with clothing, and where the clothes a person wore could seal their fate. Tracing the stories surrounding the liberty cap, the different manifestations of official dress, the tricolore cockade and the sans-culotte provides a new and exciting insight into the complexities and uncertainties that made up life in Revolutionary France and the political culture that it created. |
| Illustrations: |
1, black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Berg Publishers |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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