VPFA and LJMU Study Day on ‘Dressed to Kill: Fashion in Victorian Fiction and Periodicals’

Victorian Popular Fiction Association
and Liverpool John Moores University Study Day

Dressed to Kill: Fashion in Victorian Fiction and Periodicals
Saturday 19th March 2016, Aldham Robarts Library, LJMU

VPFA - Dressed to Kill Fashion Plate
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Featuring The Liddell Hart Collection of Costume (LHCC)


Call for Papers

We welcome proposals for 20 minute papers on topics including, but not limited to:

  • Fashion as depicted in serialised fiction
  • Fashion adverts, prints and patterns
  • The fashion season, events, dressing for the day, Christenings, weddings, funerals and mourning
  • Men’s, children’s and servant’s fashions
  • Fashion’s role within narrative, such as class, mental state, nationality, character, marital status, empire, transgression and moral worth
  • Fashion industry
  • Costume, masque and fancy dress
  • Theatrical attire, stage, tableaux, circus and ballet
  • Hair styles, toilette, accessories and jewelry

Please send proposals of 300 words and a 50 word biography in Word format to Drs Janine Hatter and Nickianne Moody at: vpfamembership@gmail.com and n.a.moody@ljmu.ac.uk

Deadline for proposals: 5th February 2016

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