A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire

Herausgeber: Heaton, Sarah

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Produktbeschreibung

19th and early 20th-century hair appears to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to commodities for styling and adornment. It was a period when hair became fetishized in all sorts of ways, from fashioning hair to moralising constriction, from suggestions of sexuality in abundant free-flowing locks, to intricate hair-incorporating jewellery which offered spiritual connections to the dead. In a period of increasing globalization and associated anxieties, hair came to express identity not just for the individual but for different cultures. Perhaps inevitably, hair itself became a contested site of signification whether as the strands of the diaspora, the cut locks of the underclass, or the coiffures of the court. A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the tangled tresses of hair in this period, with essays covering: Religion and Ritualized Belief; Self and Society; Fashion and Adornment; Production and Practice; Health and Hygiene; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Class and Social Status and Cultural Representations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 171mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9781474232098
• ISBN-10: 1474232094
• Artikelnr.: 61112970

Autorenporträt

Sarah Heaton is Head of English at the University of Chester.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Introduction: Empires of
Hair and their Afterlives Sarah Heaton 1. Religion and Ritualized Belief:
Myth, Folklore and Spiritualism in Victorian and Neo-Victorian
Representations of Hair: Unweaving the Tangled Tresses of Influence and
Obsession Richard Leahy 2. Self and Society Jonathon Shears 3. Fashion and
Adornment: African American Women in the United States, 1800 to 1920
Patricia Hunt-Hurst 4. Production and Practice: Hair Harvest, Hairpieces
and Hairwork Sallie McNamara 5. Health and Hygiene: 'Monster top-knots and
balloon chignons': Purity and Contamination in the False Hair Trade Janice
M. Allan 6. Gender and Sexuality: Tresses Adorned and Adored, Locks Coiled
and Cut Sarah Heaton 7. Race and Ethnicity: Strands of the Diaspora: Black
Hair in the Americas 1800-1920 Elizabeth Way 8. Class and Social Status:
'The more you have the better'; Or, The Politics and Economics of Hair
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller 9. Cultural Representations: The Abundant
Signifier Sally West Notes Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index