Historical Style
Author | : Timothy Campbell |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812248326 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812248325 |
Rating | : 4/5 (325 Downloads) |
Download or read book Historical Style written by Timothy Campbell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.