Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973-

Publication

• Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
• c2015

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Description

xii, 363 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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-siècle Paris.

Subject

• French literature > 19th century > History and criticism
• Modernism (Literature) > France
• Fashion in literature
• Public spaces in literature
• Fashion > History > 19th century
• Clothing and dress in literature
• Interior decoration > History > 19th century
• Interior architecture > History > 19th century
• Clothing and dress > Social aspects
• Paris (France) > Social life and customs > 19th century

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index.

Contents

Part 1. The staircase. Fashioning the Commune barricade : Zola's Au bonheur des dames -- Ups and downs, surface and spectacle : Rachilde, Maupassant, and Daudet -- Part 2. The antechamber. Waiting for change : Zola's Au bonheur des dames and Nana -- Maupassant, transformation, and the unexotic exotic -- Part 3. The fashion atelier. Places and spaces of haute couture : Feydeau's Tailleur pour dames and Zola's La curée -- A woman's work(space) : dressmaking ateliers in Huysmans's En ménage and Rachilde's late-century novels.

Call Number

JFE 16-6363

ISBN

• 9781442648036 (bound)
• 1442648031 (bound)

OCLC

879584176

Author

Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973- author.

Title

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

Publisher

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

c2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index.

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Research Call Number

JFE 16-6363