Caroline Edwards

Caroline Evans

Caroline Evans analyses the work of experimental designers, the images of fashion photographers, and the spectacular fashion shows that developed in the final decade of the twentieth century to arrive at a new understanding of fashion's dark side and what it signifies? Drawing on a variety of literary and theoretical perspectives - from Marx to Benjamin - Evans argues that fashion plays a leading role in constructing images and meanings during periods of rapid change. She shows persuasively that fashion stands at the very centre of the contemporary, where it voices some of Western culture's deepest concerns.

Spectacle, Modernity and Deathliness

Fashion at the Edge

Christopher Breward

This book tests the very definition of modernity and enhances our understanding of the role of fashion in the modern world. From top hats to locomotives, dresses to retail outlets, fashion is a prism through which modernity reflects and refracts. Breward and Evans bring together an organic collaboration of voices on this subject. The collection ranges from such topics as James Morrison (1789-1857), the Napoleon of Shopkeepers; to dress in the Stuart era; The Mannequin Parade, 1900-1925; and clothing the London actress (1860-1914). From the relationship between clothing and forensic sciences, to the play of performance, parasexuality, and the celebrity, Fashion and Modernity offers an enlightening look at fashion and the modern age.

Fashion and Modernity

Tony Venezia

Since the publication of his first novel in 1998, China Miéville has distinguished himself as one of the most exciting and inventive writers working in any genre in contemporary British fiction. The author of nine novels and two short story collections to date, as well as comics script-writing, numerous critical works on science fiction, and legal scholarship, Miéville is a critically acclaimed writer who has also achieved popular success. The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalised world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.

Critical Essays

China Miéville

Edwina Ehrman

Histoire de la mode à Londres, ses créateurs, des maisons de couture, ses tendandes, de 1800 à nos jours, de la rue aux podiums.

Fashion from Street to Catwalk

The London Look

Sarah Dillon

A collection of essays on the writing of Maggie Gee, including 'The Burning Book', 'Where Are the Snows', 'The Ice People', 'The Flood', 'The White Family', and 'Virginia Woolf in Manhattan'. As well as discussions on the topics of reproductive politics, utopia, dystopia, the public sphere and spiritualism.

Maggie Gee

Explores how the experience of time in contemporary British novels reveals the persistence of the utopian imagination today.

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