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  • Historical Style

    Fashion and the New Mode of History, 174-183

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    Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion ... Citiți mai mult

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    Historical Style connects the birth of eighteenth-century British consumer society to the rise of historical self-consciousness. Prior to the eighteenth century, British style was slow to change and followed the cultural and economic imperatives of monarchical regimes. By the 1750s, however, a growing fashion press extolled, in writing and illustration, the new phenomenon of periodized fashion ... Citiți mai mult

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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  • The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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