The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries - Hardcover
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The Ecology of Dress in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
This volume posits that clothing in the early modern period was conceived of as the prime interface between the human body and its multiple environments. Both a second skin and a human-made artefact, dress can indeed be considered as the most immediate site for the elaboration of any sort of ecology, in its etymological sense of a 'discourse' of the oikos, or of the place we inhabit. This...
Sophie Chiari is Professor of Early Modern English Literature at Universit? Clermont Auvergne, France, where she is also the Director of the 'Maison des Sciences de l'Homme de Clermont-Ferrand', a research institute encompassing the humanities and social sciences. A member of the IHRIM research team, she has edited or coedited various collections of essays including Performances at Court in the...
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