Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory
Title | Renaissance Clothing and the Materials of Memory PDF eBook |
Author | Ann Rosalind Jones |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521786638 |
This 2001 interpretation of literature and arts reveals how clothing and costume were critical to Renaissance culture.
The Clothing of the Renaissance World
Title | The Clothing of the Renaissance World PDF eBook |
Author | Cesare Vecellio |
Publisher | |
Pages | 600 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780500514269 |
A tour de force of scholarship and book production: an essential reference for anyone interested in costume history, Renaissance studies, theater, and ethnography.
Worldly Goods
Title | Worldly Goods PDF eBook |
Author | Lisa Jardine |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Pages | 516 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780393318661 |
'Worldly Goods' provides a radical interpretation of the Golden Age of European culture. During the Renaissance, Jardine argues, vicious commercial battles were being fought over silks and spices, and who should control international trade.
Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture
Title | Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Margreta de Grazia |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1996-02-23 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780521455893 |
This collection of original essays brings together some of the most prominent figures in new historicist and cultural materialist approaches to the early modern period, and offers a new focus on the literature and culture of the Renaissance. Traditionally, Renaissance studies have concentrated on the human subject. The essays collected here bring objects - purses, clothes, tapestries, houses, maps, feathers, communion wafers, tools, pages, skulls - back into view. As a result, the much-vaunted early modern subject ceases to look autonomous and sovereign, but is instead caught up in a vast and uneven world of objects which he and she makes, owns, values, imagines, and represents. This book puts things back into relation with people; in the process, it elicits new critical readings, and new cultural configurations.
The Culture of Clothing
Title | The Culture of Clothing PDF eBook |
Author | Daniel Roche |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 564 |
Release | 1996-10-10 |
Genre | Design |
ISBN | 9780521574549 |
Newly avilable in paperback, this major contribution to cultural history is a study of dress in France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Daniel Roche discusses general approaches to the history of dress, locates the subject within current French historiography and uses a large sample of inventories to explore the differences between the various social classes in the amount they spent and the kind of clothes they wore. His essential argument is that there was a 'vestimentary revolution' in the later eighteenth century as all sections of the population became caught up in the world of fashion and fast-moving consumption.
Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy
Title | Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Christiane Klapisch-Zuber |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1987-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0226439267 |
English translations of the author's most important articles.
Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama
Title | Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama PDF eBook |
Author | Karen Newman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 209 |
Release | 1991-08-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0226577090 |
By examining representations of women on stage and in the many printed materials aimed at them, Karen Newman shows how female subjectivity—both the construction of the gendered subject and the ideology of women's subjection to men—was fashioned in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Her emphasis is not on "women" so much as on the category of "femininity" as deployed in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Through the critical lens of poststructuralism, Newman reads anatomies, conduct and domesticity handbooks, sermons, homilies, ballads, and court cases to delineate the ideologies of femininity they represented and produced. Arguing that drama, as spectacle, provides a peculiarly useful locus for analyzing the management of femininity, Newman considers the culture of early modern London to reveal how female subjectivity was fashioned and staged in the plays of Shakespeare, Jonson, and others.