Main entry:

Brevik-Zender, Heidi, 1973- author.

Title & Author:

Fashioning spaces : mode and modernity in late nineteenth-century Paris / Heidi Brevik-Zender.

Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
©2015

Description:

xii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-358) and index.
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.

Summary:

In Fashioning Spaces, Heidi Brevik-Zender argues that in the years 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.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9781442648036 (bound ; acid-free paper)
1442648031 (bound ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

French literature 19th century History and criticism.
Modernism (Literature) France.
Fashion in literature.
Public spaces in literature.
Fashion History 19th century.
Clothing and dress in literature.
Interior decoration History 19th century.
Interior architecture History 19th century.
Clothing and dress Social aspects.
Littérature française 19e siècle Histoire et critique.
Modernisme (Littérature) France.
Mode dans la littérature.
Espaces publics dans la littérature.
Mode Histoire 19e siècle.
Vêtements dans la littérature.
Décoration intérieure Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture intérieure Histoire 19e siècle.
Vêtements Aspect social.
Fashion.
French literature.
Interior architecture.
Interior decoration.
Manners and customs.
Modernism (Literature)
Öffentlichkeit
Kultur
Französisch
Literatur
Mode
Paris (France) Social life and customs 19th century.
Paris (France) Mœurs et coutumes 19e siècle.
France.
France Paris.
Paris
1870-1900

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288901
Call No.: BIB 230923
Status: Available