Extravagances: Habits of Being 4

Description

This final volume in the Habits of Being series shows how the dialectic between everyday appearance and outrageous acts is mediated through clothing and accessories. Employing many different approaches, these essays explore how wearing an object can stray beyond the bounds of the body on which it is placed into the discrepant territory of flagrantly excessive public signs of love, status, honor, prestige, power, desire, and display.

Cristina Giorcelli is professor of American literature at the University of Rome Three, where she chairs the department of Euro-American studies. Paula Rabinowitz is professor of English at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of many books, including American Pulp: How Paperbacks Brought Modernism to Main Street and Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism.