Libertine Fashion
Title | Libertine Fashion PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Geczy |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2020-09-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1350054097 |
Shortlisted for the Association of Dress Historians Book of the Year Award, 2021 Libertine practices have long been associated with transgression and social deviance. This innovative book is the first to focus fully on the relationship between libertinism as a social phenomenon and as a form of fashion. Taking the reader from early modernity to the present day, Adam Geczy and Vicki Karaminas reveal how the connection between clothing and the taboo, the erotic, and the forbidden is at the heart of "libertine fashion". Moving from the decadent courts of Charles II and Louis XV to the catwalks of the 21st century, Libertine Fashion examines literary and sartorial figures ranging from the Marquis de Sade and Lord Byron to Oscar Wilde, Josephine Baker, Colette, and Madonna. Focusing on libertinism as a sartorial practice and identity, this book traces the genealogy of the concept through the proto feminists of the English Reformation, the hedonistic decadents of the fin de siècle, and the Flappers of the Roaring 20s. The historical arc traverses the 1970s era of punk and glam, the shapeshifting personae of David Bowie, and the “disciplinary regimes” of Jean-Paul Gaultier. Looking at libertine practices and appearances with fresh eyes, this bracing and original book affords many new insights into transgressive style, and of the relationship between sexuality and clothing. Accessible and thoroughly researched, Libertine Fashion uses a multidisciplinary approach that draws on historical literature, film, fashion, philosophy, and popular culture. Offering a historical and philosophical grounding in contemporary forms of identity and dress, it is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion, gender, sexuality, and cultural studies.
Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work
Title | Water Imagery in George Sand’s Work PDF eBook |
Author | Françoise Ghillebaert |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2019-01-14 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1527524957 |
This collection of essays highlights the importance of water imagery in the work of the renowned nineteenth-century French female author George Sand. It provides a complex picture of the polyvalent presence of water in Sand’s work that encompasses life and death imagery, ecocriticism, fluid kinship, homosocial ties, and artistic creativity. Drawing on Gaston Bachelard’s premise that the substance of water carries deep meaning, the articles in this volume explore the element of water and its symbolism in a selection of George Sand’s writings and art work, from her most famous novels (Indiana, Lélia, and Consuelo) to her later works, short stories, plays, and autobiographical writing (Teverino, Jean de la Roche, Les Maîtres sonneurs, La Reine Coax, L’Homme de neige, Le Drac, Un Hiver à Majorque, Marianne), and dendrite paintings.
Naked in the Marketplace
Title | Naked in the Marketplace PDF eBook |
Author | Benita Eisler |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2006-10-03 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1582433496 |
Who was George Sand? She was the first famous Frenchwoman celebrated throughout Europe who wasn't either a saint or a king's mistress. She was also the first woman in Europe to become a best–selling novelist. But her fame is inseparable from her notoriety: the scandal of leaving a husband and child, setting up in Paris with an eighteen–year–old lover, liaisons and friendships with men of talent and even genius: de Musset, Chopin, Balzac, and Flaubert. Politically engaged, Sand was literally, "there at the revolution," those of 1831 and 1848, reporting, analyzing, denouncing, exhorting. She believed always in Progress as she did in Love, though she was doomed to be betrayed in both. Acclaimed literary biographer Benita Eisler sheds new light on the many roles, triumphs, and losses that together constituted Sand's overwhelming presence. With nearly ninety novels, 20,000 letters, and thousands of pages of autobiographical writings and political commentary, how did Sand also have the time to live? As Eisler reveals, hers seems more like several lives––literary, political, amorous, and domestic. Earlier biographers have either flash–frozen Sand into a feminist icon or blurred her in the dynamic of "child of the century," but Naked in the Marketplace presents Sand at her essence––the outsized persona and the inner woman, along with the unique and irreplaceable role she played in the history of her times.
French 19th Century Painting and Literature: with Special Reference to the Relevance of Literary Subject-matter to French Painting
Title | French 19th Century Painting and Literature: with Special Reference to the Relevance of Literary Subject-matter to French Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Ulrich Finke |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Art and literature |
ISBN | 9780719004131 |
Godey's Lady's Book
Title | Godey's Lady's Book PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1282 |
Release | 1884 |
Genre | Fashion |
ISBN |
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
Title | The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters PDF eBook |
Author | George Sand |
Publisher | London : Duckworth |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Why I Write
Title | Why I Write PDF eBook |
Author | George Orwell |
Publisher | Renard Press Ltd |
Pages | 15 |
Release | 2021-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Collections |
ISBN | 1913724263 |
George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times