This 2001 book offers a close reading of literary texts, paintings, textiles, theatrical documents, and ephemera to reveal how clothing and textiles were crucial to the making and unmaking of concepts of status, gender, sexuality, and ...

In this wide-ranging book, the authors, drawing largely on Bakhtin's notion of the carnival, map out hierarchies in literary and cultural history.

Exploring the concept and history of visual and graphic epistemologies, this engrossing collection of essays by artists, curators, and scholars provides keen insights into the many forms of connection between visibility and legibility.

" "Much of what we know about Franklin as writer and printer comes from his autobiography, the focus of the last part of this book.

Em O casaco de Marx, Peter Stallybrass, em três ensaios que misturam teoria social e lirismo, política cultural e histórias pessoais, literatura e teoria econômica, traça um amplo panorama da poética e da política da roupa.

Num texto poético e comovente, Peter Stallybrass nos faz pensar, neste livro, sobre nossa relação com as roupas e com as coisas em geral.