Fashioning the Nineteenth Century [electronic resource] : Habits of Being 3 / Cristina Giorcelli and Paula Rabinowitz, editors.

Includes bibliographical references.

Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Clothing, Dress, Fashion: An Arcade -- Introduction: Fashioning a Century -- Cristina Giorcelli -- 1. Psychoanalytic Views of Cross-Dressing and Transvestism -- Bianca Iaccarino Idelson -- 2. Our Job Is to Create Beauty: A Personal Memoir of La Perla -- Anna Masotti -- 3. Modernity Clothing: Birthing the Modern Atlantic/Birthing the Modern Republic -- Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- 4. Garment of the Unseen: The Philosophy of Clothes in Carlyle and Emerson -- Giuseppe Nori -- 5. An Emblem of All the Rest: Wearing the Widow's Cap in Victorian Literature -- Dagni Bredesen -- 6. Clothing the Marmorean Flock: Sartorial Historicism and The Marble Faun -- Bruno Monfort -- 7. Florence -- Beryl Korot -- 8. Accessories to the Crime in What Maisie Knew -- Clair Hughes -- 9. Costume and Form: D'Annunzio and Mutable Appearances -- Marta Savini -- 10. Shawls Redefine Womanhood in American Literature, 1850s-1920s -- Anna Scacchi -- 11. A Lovely Little Coffee-Colored Dress: Education, Female Identity, and Dress at the End of the Nineteenth Century -- Carmela Covato -- 12. Gender and Power: Dressing "Charlie" -- Cristina Giorcelli -- 13. Imaginative Habits: Fantasies of Undressing in The Ambassadors -- Agnes Derail-Imbert -- Coda: Seen and Obscene -- Paula Rabinowitz -- Contributors.

Description based on print version record.