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Author:

Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973- author.

Title:

Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris / Heidi Brevik-Zender.

Publisher:

University of Toronto Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

French literature--19th century--History and criticism.
Paris (France)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Modernism (Literature)--France.
Fashion in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Fashion--History--19th century.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Interior decoration--History--19th century.
Interior architecture--History--19th century.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Clothing and dress--Social aspects.
Fashion.
Fashion in literature.
French literature.
Interior architecture.
Interior decoration.
Manners and customs.
Modernism (Literature)
Public spaces in literature.
France.
France--Paris.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references ( pages 345-358) and index.

Summary:

In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years between 1870 and 1900 the chroniclers of Parisian modernity depicted the urban landscape not just in public settings such as boulevards and parks but also in "dislocations," spaces where the public and the intimate overlapped in provocative and subversive ways. Stairwells, theatre foyers, dressmakers' studios, and dressing rooms were in-between places that have long been overlooked but were actually marked as indisputably modern through their connections with high fashion. Fashioning Spaces engages with and thinks beyond the work of critics Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin to arrive at new readings of the French capital. Examining literature by Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, and others, as well as paintings, architecture, and the fashionable garments worn by both men and women, Brevik-Zender crafts a compelling and innovative account of how fashion was appropriated as a way of writing about the complexities of modernity in fin-de-siècle Paris.

ISBN:

1442648031 (bound)
9781442648036 (bound)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)879584176

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)