Men In Black by John Harvey

Men In Black by John Harvey

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Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century: Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in this age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. For an answer one must look at the history of black.

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Men In Black by John Harvey

Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century: Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in this age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. For an answer one must look at the history of black.

John Harvey is a novelist and critic. He taught for the Cambridge English Faculty from 1974, and in 2000 became University Reader in Literature and Visual Culture. He is a Life Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the author of Men in Black (Reaktion, 1997) and The Story of Black (Reaktion, 2013).

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ISBN 13 9780948462733
ISBN 10 0948462736
Title Men In Black
Author John Harvey
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Reaktion Books
Year published 1995-09-01
Number of pages 256
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