Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France

by Susan Hiner

Book Overview

Accessories to Modernity explores the ways in which feminine fashion accessories, such as cashmere shawls, parasols, fans, and handbags, became essential instruments in the bourgeois idealization of womanhood in nineteenth-century France. Considering how these fashionable objects were portrayed in fashion journals and illustrations, as well as fiction, the book explores the histories and cultural weight of the objects themselves and offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812242599
• ISBN13: 9780812242591
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"