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Fashioning spaces, mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris, Heidi Brevik-Zender

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Fashioning spaces

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Heidi Brevik-Zender

mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris

"In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that 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."--Dust jacket

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