Market a la Mode: Fashion, Commodity, and Gender in the Tatler and the Spectator

by Erin Mackie

How eighteenth-century fashion publications assumed a leading role in defining women's legitimate sphere of activities.

In Market ? la Mode, Erin Mackie examines the role that The Tatler and The Spectator, two eighteenth-century British lifestyle magazines, played in the growth of fashion and how they influenced their readers. She traces the commercial context in which they operated, focusing on the processes of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801872537
• ISBN13: 9780801872532
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"