This innovative book is the first to make an explicit link between constructions of the body in Gothic literature and film and historically specific fashion discourse, from the 1790s to the 1990s.
Catherine Spooner is Lecturer in English at the University of Reading
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DedicationAcknowledgementsList of figures1. Curtain'd in mysteries: An introduction to Gothic fashion2. Revolution and revealment: The Gothic body and the politics of décolletage3. Clothes made the man: Fashioning the self in Victorian Gothic fiction4. Mysteries of the visible: Dandies, cross-dressers and freaks in late-Victorian Gothic5. Cosmo-Gothic: The double and the single woman6. Undead fashion: Nineties style and the perennial return of Goth7. Refashioning Gothic bodies: An anti-conclusionBibliographyFashion spreadsFilm and visual mediaSelected discographySelected electronic sources