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Author Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973- author.

Title Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris / Heidi Brevik-Zender.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary Annotation In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years between 1870 and 1900 the chroniclers of Parisian modernity depicted the urban landscape not just in public settings such as boulevards and parks but also in "dislocations," spaces where the public and the intimate overlapped in provocative and subversive ways. Stairwells, theatre foyers, dressmakers' studios, and dressing rooms were in-between places that have long been overlooked but were actually marked as indisputably modern through their connections with high fashion. Fashioning Spaces engages with and thinks beyond the work of critics Charles Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin to arrive at new readings of the French capital.Examining literature by Zola, Maupassant, Rachilde, and others, as well as paintings, architecture, and the fashionable garments worn by both men and women, Brevik-Zender crafts a compelling and innovative account of how fashion was appropriated as a way of writing about the complexities of modernity in fin-de-siEcle Paris.
Contents ""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Dedication""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: The Staircase""; ""1�Fashioning the Commune Barricade: Zola�s Au Bonheur des Dames ""; ""2�Ups and Downs, Surface and Spectacle: Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet ""; ""Part Two: The Antechamber""; ""3�Waiting for Change: Zola�s Au Bonheur des Dames and Nana ""; ""4�Maupassant, Transformation, and the Unexotic Exotic ""; ""Part Three: The Fashion Atelier""
""5�Places and Spaces of Haute Couture: Feydeau�s Tailleur pour dames and Zola�s La Curée """"6�A Woman�s Work(space): Dressmaking Ateliers in Huysmans�s En Ménage and Rachilde�s Late-Cent""; ""Epilogue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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Subject French literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Paris (France) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Modernism (Literature) -- France.
Modernism (Literature)
France.
Fashion in literature.
Fashion in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973-, author. Fashioning spaces 9781442648036 (OCoLC)879584176
ISBN 9781442669802 electronic book
1442669802 electronic book
9781442648036
1442648031