Accessorizing the Body: Habits of Being I

Description

The first in the four-part series Habits of Being, charting the social, cultural, and political expression of clothing as seen on the street and in museums, in films and literature, and in advertisements and magazines, this volume features a close-up focus on accessories-the shoe, the hat, the necklace-intimately connected to the body.

Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three. She is coeditor, with Charles Capper, of Margaret Fuller: Transatlantic Crossings in a Revolutionary Age and founding editor of the quarterly journal Letterature d'America.Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the author of many books, most recently Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism.