Sartorial practices and social order in eighteenth-century Sweden fashioning difference / Mikael Alm.
| Author/creator | Alm, Mikael |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022. |
| Description | 1 online resource |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge studies in eighteenth-century cultures and societies |
| Contents | A question posed : entering the sartorial world -- The nature of order -- Disorder in the sartorial world -- The ordering of difference -- Fashioning difference : conclusions. |
| Abstract | "The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Alm, Mikael. Sartorial practices and social order in eighteenth-century Sweden New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. 9781032044194 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021004760 |
| ISBN | 9781000415506 (epub) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9781003193258 (ebook) |
| ISBN | 9781000415469 (adobe pdf) |
| ISBN | (paperback) |
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