{"product_id":"historical-style-fashion-and-the-new-mode-of-history-174-183-hardback-9780812248326","title":"Historical Style; Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183 (Hardback) 9780812248326","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTimothy Campbell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812248326\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 August 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 54 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 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\"Our ideas of history are dependent upon lived temporalities shaped by commercial and material forces, and I have never seen this truth so solidly, aptly, and compellingly explicated as in Timothy Campbell's book.\" (Erin Mackie, Syracuse University) \"Original, witty, and very well-researched, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e deftly argues that eighteenth-century British culture became self-consciously periodized through the new phenomenon of fashion trends.\" (Cynthia Wall, University of Virginia)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion trends. As fashion fads came in and out of style, and as fashion texts circulated and obsolesced, Britons were forced to confront the material persistence of out-of-date fashions. Timothy Campbell argues that these fashion texts and objects shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past, as well as a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.\u003cbr\u003e In a panoptic sweep, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e brings together art history, philosophy, and literary history to portray an era increasingly aware of itself. Burgeoning consumer society, Campbell contends, highlighted the distinction between the past and the present, created an expectation of continual change, and forged a sense of history as something that could be tracked through material objects. Campbell assembles a wide range of writings, images, and objects to render this eighteenth-century landscape: commercial dress displays and David Hume's ideas of novelty as historical form; popular illustrations of recent fashion trends and Sir Joshua Reynolds's aesthetic precepts; fashion periodicals and Sir Walter Scott's costume-saturated historical fiction. In foregrounding fashion to trace eighteenth-century historicism, \u003ci\u003eHistorical Style\u003c\/i\u003e draws upon the interdisciplinary, multimedia archival impressions that fashionable dress has left behind, as well as the historical and conceptual resources within the field of fashion studies that literary and cultural historians of eighteenth-century and Romantic Britain have often neglected.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Fashions Past\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE DRESS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Modern Fashion and Comparative Contemporaneity\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Portrait Historicism and the Dress of the Times\u003cbr\u003e PART II. THE FICTIONS OF SERIAL HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Hume, Historical Succession, and the Dress of Rousseau\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Historical Novelty and Serial Form\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Walter Scott's Fashion Systems\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. William Godwin and the Objects of Historical Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734616568088,"sku":"9780812248326","price":50.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/historical-style-fashion-and-the-new-mode-of-history-174-183-hardback-9780812248326","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}