The Politics of appearances : Representations of dress in revolutionary France 1st ed.

Author

• Wrigley, Richard

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Oxford: Berg, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9781847888914

Series

Subject(s)

• COSTUME
• FRANCE

Notes

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Abstract

In the turbulent political and social landscape of Revolutionary France, dress played a major role in defining and displaying new identities. What people wore was, in fact, a vital symbol of their allegiances and beliefs. Drawing on a wide range of documentary and visual sources, this book offers a vivid picture of the highly charged politics of Revolutionary appearances. The author explores the dynamic complexity of the new socio-political world, where the identification of who stood for what was such an urgent, if vexed, issue: where identical items of dress could stand for opposing political ideologies, where a variety of institutions - from local societies to the national assembly - tried to define the meanings associated with clothing, and where the clothes a person wore could seal their fate. Tracing the stories surrounding the liberty cap, the different manifestations of official dress, the tricolore cockade and the sans-culotte provides a new and exciting insight into the complexities and uncertainties that made up life in Revolutionary France and the political culture that it created.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (x, 310 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Revolutionary Relics --
2. Representing Authority: New Forms of Official Identity --
3. Cockades: Badge Culture and its Discontents --
4. Liberty Caps: From Roman Emblem to Radical Headgear --
5. Sans-culottes: The Formation, Currency, and Representation of a Vestimentary Stereotype --
6. Mistaken Identities: Disguise, Surveillance, and the Legibility of Appearances.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	01591/21	391.00944 Wri P	Online !	Available