{"product_id":"9781350240308","title":"Fear and Clothing : A Cultural History of Identity through Dress in English Detective Fiction Between the First and Second World Wars","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eFear and Clothing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Jane Custance Baker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough analyzing dress in detective fiction, \u003ci\u003eFear and Clothing\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a cultural history of identity affected by the social upheaval caused by war. In-depth analysis of 280 interwar publications by a comprehensive range of writers reveals readership's anxieties and fears about performance of class, gender, and race and how they changed over that period. Although read and written by both men and women, detective fiction was deemed at that time a masculine and high-status entertainment. However the literature demonstrates an admiration and acceptance of the woman's identity, performed during the Great War, and continuing throughout the interwar period, as girl pal and female gentleman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn chapters that explore age, character, class, masculinity, performative womanhood and race, Jane Custance Baker exposes how dress was a status marker to both male and female readers. Made anxious by social change brought about by war, dress in detective fiction reveals a set of signs to be read, digested, and possibly employed to model the individual reader's personal dress choices.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781350240308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Bloomsbury Visual Arts","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40829699948750,"sku":"9781350240308","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781350240308","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}