| Description |
1 online resource (274 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half-title; Endorsement; Title page; Copyright information; Table of contents; Illustrations; Citations and abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Commodities of Print and Dress; Producing textiles and paper; Wool; Silk; Cotton; Linen; Paper; Selling textiles and paper; Itinerant sellers; Pedlars in ballads; Pedlars' commodities; Consuming textiles and paper; The importance of London; Proliferating fashion and print; Little luxuries; Commodities of print and dress; 2 Ballad Comment on Dress; Traditional commentary in the 1620s and 30s; Social hierarchy; Social justice; New contexts |
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New narratives after 1680Shoemakers; Tailors; Weavers; New commentaries: weavers and pro-fashion economics; Ballad comment on dress; 3 Ballad Pictures; Addressing ballad pictures; Ballads, books and woodcuts; Images in books and ballads; The look of ballad sheets; Miniatures and bust-length portraits; Picturing garments and the 'heraldic' convention; Drapery and the 'classical' convention; Draperies into woodcut; Resolving the commodity; Conventions of clothes and the body; 4 Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part I; Gendering the 'classical' convention; The armoured body |
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Engendered by warMarital relations and national politics; Satirising men's fashion; New courtiers and men about town; Wigs: subject or abject; Picturing 'satirical' men; Masculinity, fashion and the defence of the nation; 5 Classical Ideals and Satirical Deviations, Part II; 'Classical' femininity: bared breasts; Who bared their breasts?; Ballad breasts: love and devotion; Ballad breasts: sexuality; Satire on fashion; The gendered politics of fashion satire; Female bodies, feminine fashions and economic benefits; Epilogue; New Kinds of Dress; Calico Riots and Calico Ballads |
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Fashion and Popular Print in Early Modern EnglandNotes; Select Bibliography; Principal ballad collections consulted; Select primary sources, published in London (unless otherwise stated); Select secondary sources; Acknowledgements; Index of Ballad Titles; Index |
| Summary |
Fashion featured in black-letter broadside ballads over a hundred years before fashion magazines appeared in England. In the seventeenth century, these single-sheet prints contained rhyming song texts and woodcut pictures, accessible to almost everyone in the country. Dress was a popular subject for ballads, as well as being a commodity with close material and cultural connections to them. This book analyses how the distinctive words and images of these ballads made meaning, both in relation to each other on the ballad sheet and in response to contemporary national events, sumptuary legislation, religious practice, economic theory, the visual arts and literature |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-244) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ballads, English -- History and criticism
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English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
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Broadsides -- England -- 17th century
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Fashion in literature.
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Clothing and dress in literature.
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Clothing and dress -- England -- History -- 17th century
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Popular culture and literature -- England -- History -- 17th century
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Ballads, English
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Broadsides
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Clothing and dress
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Clothing and dress in literature
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English poetry -- Early modern
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Fashion in literature
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Popular culture and literature
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2017278035 |
| ISBN |
9781786731968 |
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1786731967 |
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9781350986374 |
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1350986372 |
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9781786721969 |
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1786721961 |
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