Theatricality of the closet: fashion, performance, and subjectivity between Victorian Britain and Meiji Japan

Abstract

"Michelle Liu Carriger examines fashion and clothing controversies of the nineteenth century, drawing on performance theory to reveal how the apparently superficial or frivolous deeply affects the creation of identity."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents

"Tissue of Quotations": Fashion and Subjectivity -- "Typical Modern Amazon": Freaks of Fashion, Newspaper Nightmares, and the Girl of the Period -- "Extraordinary Revelations of the Hermaphrodite Clique": Boulton and Park and the Theater Defense -- "Great Mirrors": Redressing Nation, Gender, and Modernity in Meiji Japan -- "Returning to the Real Me": Gothic Lolita Self-Fashioning.