In Market 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 ...
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In Market 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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Book. Octavo, 303 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine tan with maroon lettering. Dust jacket protected with mylar covering. Small tears to top and bottom of dust jacket. Sunning to edges and spine of dust jacket. Interior pages clean. Shelved in England. 1388720. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
