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Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England: Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads
Clare Backhouse
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Description for Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England: Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads
Hardcover. Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. Num Pages: 240 pages, 26 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; AKTH; HBJD1; HBTB; JFCK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to them.This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events, sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the visual arts and literature. ... Read more
Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to them.This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events, sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the visual arts and literature. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784538378
SKU
V9781784538378
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Ref
99-5
About Clare Backhouse
Clare Backhouse received her Doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She has taught undergraduates at Oxford University and MA students at the Courtauld and the Victoria & Albert Museum. She is a contributor to Printed Images in Early Modern Britain (2010).
Reviews for Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern England: Depicting Dress in Black-Letter Ballads
This book is a must-have for seventeenth century dress historians. To those already familiar with the dress of the period, this is an excellent supplement. This book would also be of interest to anyone interested in the relationship of dress and print culture in any period.
Journal of Dress History
Journal of Dress History