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Cinderella's Glass Slipper: Towards a Cultural History of Renaissance Materialities
By (author) Genevieve Warwick
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Cinderella's Glass Slipper studies Renaissance material cultures through the literary prism of fairy-tale objects. The literary fairy-tale first arose in Renaissance Venice, originating from oral story-telling traditions that would later become the Arabian Nights, and subsequently in the Parisian salons of Louis XIV. Largely written by, for, and in the name of women, these literary fairy-tales took a lightly comic view of life's vicissitudes, especially female fortune in marriage. Connecting literary representations of bridal goods - dress, jewellery, carriages, toiletries, banqueting and confectionary foods - to the craft histories of their making, this Element offers a newly-contextualised socio-economic account of Renaissance luxe, from architectural interiors to sartorial fashioning and design. By coupling Renaissance luxury wares with their fairy-tale representation, it locates the recherché materialities of bridal goods - gold, silver, diamonds and silk - within expanding colonialist markets of a newly-global early modern economy in the age of discovery.
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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 20 Oct 2022
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 110
Dimensions | 228 x 152 x 7mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 180g
ISBN | 978-1-0092-6398-6
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BISAC | history / europe / general
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