Units: 4
Hours: Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours
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Prerequisites: restricted to class level standing of junior, or senior
Description: Explores fashion culture in literature and art from nineteenth-century France and in comparative contexts. Topics include fashion and urbanism, women?s labor, gender play, queer desire, Orientalism, and the Black dandy. Studies painting, film, architecture, photography, and material objects to complement literary critique. Course is taught in English.