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This book examines the ways in which dress 'performs' in a wide range of contemporary and historical literary texts. Essays by North American, European and Australian scholars explore the function of clothing within fictional narratives, including those of film, television and advertising. The book provides a groundbreaking examination of the interconnected worlds of fashion and words, providing perspectives from socio-cultural, historical and theoretical readings of fashion and text-based communication. Covering a variety of genres and periods,Fashion in Fictionanalyzes fashion's role within a range of creative media, exploring the many ways that dress communicates, disrupts and modulates meaning across different cultures and contexts.

Peter McNeil is a professor of Design History at The University of Technology, Sydney and Foundation Chair of Fashion Studies at Stockholm University. He is editor of Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources and co-editor of Shoes: A History from Sandals to Sneakers, The Men's Fashion Reader and The Fashion History Reader: Global Perspectives. Catherine Cole is a professor of Creative Writing at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and author of The Poet who Forgot, The Grave at Thy Lu, Dry Dock, Skin Deep, Private Dicks and Fiesty Chicks: An Interrogation of Crime Fiction. Vicki Karaminas is a senior lecturer in Fashion Theory and Design Studies at the School of Design, The University of Technology, Sydney and co-editor of The Men's Fashion Reader.

Introduction
Fashion Tales And The Visual Imagination
The Question of Costume: Dressing for Success in the 19th century Novel
A Hovering Space: The Mystery of the Fashion Photograph
Fashion and the Art of Class Deception: Clothing and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Fiction
Grisettes, cocottes, and bohemes: Fashion and Fiction in Octave Tassaert's 'Boudoirs et mansardes' (1828) and 'Les amants et les Epoux' (1829)
Fair Exchange: Novelist as Stylist, Designer as Storyteller Sophia Errey, RMIT
The Fashioned World of Andrea Zittel
Crossing Cultures, Queering Cultures
Junichiro Tanizaki's 'Naomi' and the Power of Foreign Clothing in Modern Japanese Fiction
The Fire Sermon: Fashion, Memory and Representation
A Conceptual Framework for Brand Storytelling: Creating Context and Meaning for Cargo Pants
Double Brides: Narratives of Desire in the recent 'Wedding Dresses' of lesbian couples
'Collection L'
Fashion's Textual Identities
Aesthetic Movement Fashion Reform: Dress and Interiors
Holly Golightly and the fashioning of the waif
Becoming Neo: Costume, Gadgets and Transforming Masculinity in 'The Matrix' films
Textile as Sign of Barthes' Bliss Concept within the Texture of Nietzsche
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Fashion in Fiction Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television

Fashion in Fiction Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television

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