Fashion and Fiction: Dress In Art and Literature in Stuart England

Small quarto. Hardback with the pictorial dust-jacket. 387 pages, richly illustrated with colour and b/w photographs. Illustrations photos mainly in colour, some also b/w. A Fine copy. A study of Stuart England through the mirror of dress. It argues that both artistic and literary sources can be read and decoded for important information on dress and the way it was perceived in a period of immense political, social, and cultural change. Focusing on the rich visual culture of the seventeenth century, including portraits, engravings, fashion plates, and sculpture, and on literary sources poetry, drama, essays, sermons the distinguished historian of dress Aileen Ribeiro creates a fascinating account of Stuart dress and how it both reflected and influenced society.

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