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Costumes, Period Dramas and Their Audiences: From the Late 19th Century to the Present

by Lydia Edwards
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781032935485
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • Publisher Imprint: Routledge
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 200
  • Original Price: GBP 155.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: 1
  • Item Weight: 477 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Performance

This book considers the notion of 'historical escapism' through both costume and fashion design, illustrating how one informs the other to produce different consumable representations of the past, to quell contemporary anxieties, and to confront generational traumas.

Lydia Edwards is a fashion historian, public speaker, independent consultant and lecturer at Edith Cowan University and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. She has previously taught at the University of Western Australia, Dundee University and the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Bloomsbury's How to Read a Dress (2017 and 2021) and How to Read a Suit (2020) and runs the popular fashion history Instagram account @howtoreadadress.

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