Glamour: A History

by Stephen Gundle

Book Overview

Here is the first ever history of glamour, ranging from Paris in the tumultuous final decades of the eighteenth century through to Hollywood, New York, and Monte Carlo in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, from the glamorous fictional characters of Walter Scott to iconic figures such as Marlene Dietrich and Marilyn Monroe to modern idols such as Paris Hilton. The book maps the origins of glamour and investigates the forms that it took in modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199210985
• ISBN13: 9780199210985
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 502 Pages
• Weight: 2.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 6.1"