A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire (1800-1920)
- Submitting institution
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University of Chester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 27-02/270001
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury
- ISBN
- 9781474232128
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This collection of essays radically redresses the absence of extensive studies of cultural representations of hair across the long nineteenth century. It is an interdisciplinary volume with an extensive breadth of reference, from the global trade in hair, hairpieces, and hairwork, to the commodities developed for styling and adornment. It explores sites of exchange, from the Crystal Palace through to the barber shop, analysing a diversity of representations in art and literature. The chapters, commissioned and curated by Heaton, are underpinned by considerations of race and ethnicity, sexuality and gender, class and social status. As well as extensive editing, Heaton has also contributed two essays to the volume: ‘Introduction: Empires of Hair and their Afterlives’, which is based on extensive contextual research, and the chapter, ‘Gender and Sexuality: Tresses Adorned and Adored, Locks Coiled and Cut’. Reviewing the series for the TLS (24/05/19), Shahidha Bari comments: ‘Together, the editors and contributors cogently detail the different ways in which hair might illuminate something important about humans. […] In hair, we might find a way of telling an alternative history.’
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- Non-English
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