{"title":"Catherine Spooner","description":"\u003cp\u003eCatherine Spooner’s work delves into the intersections of culture, identity, and narrative, with a particular focus on gothic themes. Her books explore how gothic aesthetics shape and reflect social and psychological experiences, offering insightful perspectives on body politics and representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful, academically rigorous texts that merge cultural theory with vivid analysis. Spooner’s writing is an essential resource for those interested in education, cultural studies, and the nuanced ways literature and visual culture inform our understanding of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fashioning-gothic-bodies-by-catherine-spooner-9780719064012","title":"Fashioning Gothic bodies","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis study explores the role played by clothing in the discourses of the Gothic. It makes an explicit connection between the veils, masks, and disguises of gothic convention and historically specific fashion discourses, from the revealing chemise-dress popularised by Queen Marie Antoinette to the subcultural style of contemporary goths. In so doing, it sheds light on the cultural construction of gothic bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking an original, interdisciplinary approach, Catherine Spooner offers readings of literary, cinematic, and popular cultural texts in the context of fashion from the 1790s to the 1990s. Progressing chronologically from the novels of Radcliffe and Lewis through the \"sensation\" fiction of the Victorian period and the gothic fiction of the \"fin-de-siècle,\" the text culminates with 20th-century film and the supposed resurgence of the gothic in pre-millennial culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFashioning Gothic Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e should be of interest to students working on the gothic in literary, film, and cultural studies, as well as to literary scholars and fashion theoreticians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460827726060,"sku":"9780719064012","price":52.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780719064012-fashioning-gothic-bodies.jpg?v=1774953064"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/catherine-spooner.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}