Fashion and popular print in early modern England : depicting dress in black-letter ballads /
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| Author / Creator: | Backhouse, Clare, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : I.B. Tauris, 2017. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12870654 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Illustrations; Citations and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Commodities of Print and Dress; Producing textiles and paper; Wool; Silk; Cotton; Linen; Paper; Selling textiles and paper; Itinerant sellers; Pedlars in ballads; Pedlars' commodities; Consuming textiles and paper; The importance of London; Proliferating fashion and print; Little luxuries; Commodities of print and dress; 2 Ballad Comment on Dress; Traditional commentary in the 1620s and 30s; Social hierarchy; Social justice; New contexts.
- New narratives after 1680Shoemakers; Tailors; Weavers; New commentaries: weavers and pro-fashion economics; Ballad comment on dress; 3 Ballad Pictures; Addressing ballad pictures; Ballads, books and woodcuts; Images in books and ballads; The look of ballad sheets; Miniatures and bust-length portraits; Picturing garments and the 'heraldic' convention; Drapery and the 'classical' convention; Draperies into woodcut; Resolving the commodity; Conventions of clothes and the body; 4 Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part I; Gendering the 'classical' convention; The armoured body.
- Engendered by warMarital relations and national politics; Satirising men's fashion; New courtiers and men about town; Wigs: subject or abject; Picturing 'satirical' men; Masculinity, fashion and the defence of the nation; 5 Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part II; 'Classical' femininity: bared breasts; Who bared their breasts?; Ballad breasts: love and devotion; Ballad breasts: sexuality; Satire on fashion; The gendered politics of fashion satire; Female bodies, feminine fashions and economic benefits; Epilogue; New Kinds of Dress; Calico Riots and Calico Ballads.
- Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern EnglandNotes; Select Bibliography; Principal ballad collections consulted; Select primary sources, published in London (unless otherwise stated); Select secondary sources; Acknowledgements; Index of Ballad Titles; Index.