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
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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