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In Market à la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. She traces the commercial context in which they operated, focusing on the processes of commodification, fetishization, and revisions of gender identity. Mackie's study makes clear that fashion publications, far from being commentaries on passing trends, assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities as well as in the development of commerce as recreation.
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Examines the role that these two periodicals played in the growth of fashion, how they influenced their readers, and the commercial context in which they operated<-->with particular emphasis on the processes of commodification, fetishization, and revisions of gender identity. By championing natural fashions and the decency of bourgeois, they advanced modern standards of British taste, and assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities as well as in the development of commerce as a recreation. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
August 20, 1997
Publisher
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997.
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801855887