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1 online resource (265 pages) |
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Book collections on Project MUSE
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Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. "It cannot be supposed that men make no study of dress" -- 2. Outfitting the Gent -- 3. "Really there is much more to be said about men's fashions than I had imagined" -- 4. From Dandy to Masher to Consumer -- 5. Ready to Wear -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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The English middle class in the late nineteenth century enjoyed an increase in the availability and variety of material goods. With that, the visual markers of class membership and manly behavior underwent a radical change. In The Cut of His Coat: Men, Dress, and Consumer Culture in Britain, 1860-1914, Brent Shannon examines familiar novels by authors such as George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hughes, and H.G. Wells, as well as previously unexamined etiquette manuals, period advertisements, and fashion monthlies, to trace how new ideologies emerged as mass-produced clothes, sartorial mar |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-243) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Consumption (Economics) -- England -- History
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Male consumers -- Great Britain -- History
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Masculinity -- England -- History
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Men's clothing -- England -- History
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Social classes -- England -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Consumption (Economics)
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Male consumers
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Masculinity
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Men's clothing
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Social classes
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Männerkleidung
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Mode
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Herrmode -- historia -- Storbritannien.
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England
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Great Britain
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Großbritannien
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006017471 |
| ISBN |
9780821442289 |
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0821442287 |
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