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- catalog abstract "In The Tyranny of Elegance, Daniel Purdy examines the coming of bourgeois fashion (Mode) and luxury consumerism (Luxus) to eighteenth-century Germany. Purdy examines the extraordinary influence of Frederick Bertuch's Mode Journal, which chronicled in obsessive detail the clothing and decorative trends in London, Paris, and other European capitals. He traces the elite reaction against fashion that followed the example of the king, Frederick the Great, who dressed poorly - in worn and even dirty clothes - to separate himself from the francophile fastidiousness typical of absolutist armies. The changing notions of personal appearance that swept Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, Purdy concludes, were more than simply new styles reflecting new political ideologies - they indicated a fundamental shift in the epistemology of the subject and the body.".
- catalog contributor b10887354.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description "Fashion Journals and the Education of Enlightened Consumers -- Reading to Consume: Identificatory Perception and Fashion-Driven Desires -- The Ever-Expanding Domain of Mode und Luxus -- The Queen of Fashion: An Allegory of Conformity -- The Legacy of Medieval and Early Modern Sumptuary Laws -- Paranoid Geography and the European Dispersion of Fashion -- The Veil of Masculinity: Clothing and Identity via Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Civilian Uniforms as a Cure for Luxury -- The Uniform's Tactical Control: Execution over Performance -- Signification as Discipline: The Demotion of Ostentation and the Hard-Working Suit.".
- catalog description "In The Tyranny of Elegance, Daniel Purdy examines the coming of bourgeois fashion (Mode) and luxury consumerism (Luxus) to eighteenth-century Germany. Purdy examines the extraordinary influence of Frederick Bertuch's Mode Journal, which chronicled in obsessive detail the clothing and decorative trends in London, Paris, and other European capitals. He traces the elite reaction against fashion that followed the example of the king, Frederick the Great, who dressed poorly - in worn and even dirty clothes - to separate himself from the francophile fastidiousness typical of absolutist armies. The changing notions of personal appearance that swept Europe at the end of the eighteenth century, Purdy concludes, were more than simply new styles reflecting new political ideologies - they indicated a fundamental shift in the epistemology of the subject and the body.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 301 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Tyranny of elegance.".
- catalog identifier "0801858747 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Tyranny of elegance.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baltimore, Md : The Johns Hopkins University Press,".
- catalog relation "Tyranny of elegance.".
- catalog spatial "Germany".
- catalog subject "339.4/7/094309034 21".
- catalog subject "Consumer behavior Germany History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Consumption (Economics) Germany History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Fashion Germany History 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Fashion in literature.".
- catalog subject "HC290.5.C6 P87 1998".
- catalog tableOfContents "Fashion Journals and the Education of Enlightened Consumers -- Reading to Consume: Identificatory Perception and Fashion-Driven Desires -- The Ever-Expanding Domain of Mode und Luxus -- The Queen of Fashion: An Allegory of Conformity -- The Legacy of Medieval and Early Modern Sumptuary Laws -- Paranoid Geography and the European Dispersion of Fashion -- The Veil of Masculinity: Clothing and Identity via Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers -- Civilian Uniforms as a Cure for Luxury -- The Uniform's Tactical Control: Execution over Performance -- Signification as Discipline: The Demotion of Ostentation and the Hard-Working Suit.".
- catalog title "The tyranny of elegance : consumer cosmopolitanism in the era of Goethe / Daniel L. Purdy.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".