Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740-1830
ISBN: 9780812293043
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: History ; Art & Art History;

In Historical Style , Timothy Campbell argues that the eighteenth-century fashion press shaped British perception of time and history by producing new curiosity about the very recent past and a new self-consciousness about the means by which the past could be understood.


Timothy Campbell teaches English at the University of Chicago.
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