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Fear and Clothing (eBook)

Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars
Autor: Jane Custance Baker
CHF 42.55
ISBN: 978-1-350-24032-2
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Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readers' anxieties and fears about class, gender and race and how these changed over the period. Although read and written by both men and women, detective fiction was deemed at the time to be a masculine and high-status entertainment. However the literature demonstrates an admiration and acceptance of the woman's identity, performed during the Great War and continuing throughout the interwar period, as girl pal and female gentleman.

In chapters that explore age, character, class, masculinity, performative womanhood and race, Jane Custance Baker exposes how dress was a status marker to both male and female readers, made anxious by social change brought about by war. Dress in detective fiction reveals a set of signs to be read, digested, and possibly employed to model the individual reader's personal dress choices. Fear and Clothing sheds new light on dress of the period, the social and cultural environment as depicted in the popular fiction genre in the early 20th century, and is of interest to researchers and scholars within dress history, literary and historical studies, as well as anyone who enjoys the history of detective fiction.

Autor Jane Custance Baker
Verlag Bloomsbury UK eBooks
Einband PDF
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
Seitenangabe 264 S.
Lieferstatus
Ausgabekennzeichen Englisch
Abbildungen 30 bw illus
Masse 24'118 KB
Auflage 23001 A. 1. Auflage
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