{"product_id":"exquisite-materials-episodes-in-the-queer-history-of-victorian-style-paperback-softback-9781644531693","title":"Exquisite Materials; Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style (Paperback \/ softback) 9781644531693","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eExquisite Materials\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEpisodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAbigail Joseph (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781644531693\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 8 November 2019\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages, 30 B\u0026amp;W\u003cbr\u003e23.4 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.481 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"I strongly believe that readers will benefit from and enjoy reading this subtle, eccentric book. Joseph's lively style makes this potentially important addition to queer studies, aesthetics, and material culture studies in a delightful read. By gathering familiar figures with relatively unknown ones under the common rubric of exquisite materials, Joseph has clarified popular, even cliched and banal, observations about queer sensibilities, lending them vital and solid cultural analysis.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Adrienne Munich, Stony Brook University, author of Queen Victoria's Secrets\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExquisite Materials: Episodes in the Queer History of Victorian Style\u003c\/i\u003e does an excellent job of situating and queering some of the most exaggeratedly extreme decades in Victorian feminine style and silhouettes. Joseph's framework provides a welcome and sympathetic lens through which scholars across a range of disciplines can review queer affective networks and archives through things, with a focus on dress and ephemera in particular. ... Overall, Joseph's book is thought-provoking and lays a strong foundation for reconsidering what queer style might be during the later Victorian period.\"\u003c\/div\u003e— Alison Matthews David, Toronto Metropolitan University, Victorian Studies\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eExquisite Materials\u003c\/i\u003e explores the connections between gay subjects, material objects, and the social and aesthetic landscapes in which they circulated. Each of the book's four chapters takes up as a case study a figure or set of figures whose life and work dramatize different aspects of the unique queer relationship to materiality and style. These diverse episodes converge around the contention that paying attention to the multitudinous objects of the Victorian world-and to the social practices surrounding them-reveals the boundaries and influences of queer forms of identity and aesthetic sensibility that emerged in the mid-nineteenth century and have remained recognizable up to our own moment. In the cases that author Abigail Joseph examines, objects become unexpected sites of queer community and desire.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction: Victorian Objects and Queer Attachments\u003cbr\u003e  1 · Dress and Drag around 1870\u003cbr\u003e  2 · Jane Furneaux and the Social Lives of Fraud\u003cbr\u003e  3 · Charles Worth and the Queer Effects of Haute Couture\u003cbr\u003e  4 · Oscar Wilde and the Trials of Transmission\u003cbr\u003e  Coda: Material Memory\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  References\u003cbr\u003e  Index\"\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Delaware Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52523419533592,"sku":"9781644531693","price":31.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/exquisite-materials-episodes-in-the-queer-history-of-victorian-style-paperback-softback-9781644531693","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}