MODA E MODI DI VITA

Even before becoming a catalyst of mass consumption, fashion was able to mobilize desire by merging into a single movement tensions and contradictions, economics and sexual impulses, the search for self-expression and the construction of social identities, commercial purposes and models of eroticism. The essays in this volume, are dedicated to works and writers from different periods and countries They investigate the relations between fashion and lifestyle by analyzing the interaction between their mutual poetics, semantics and proposed “life orientations”. At the same time, the essays explore their problematic reinvention through literary genres.

About Luciana Gentilli, Patrizia Oppici & Susi Pietri
Luciana Gentilli is an associate professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Macerata. Her main research interests focus on the study of theatre during the Baroque period (the golden theatre, “letteratura emblematistica” - a literary genre developed during the Renaissance, and preaching after the Council of Trent) and education at royal courts. She has written books and articles on Quevedo, Lope and Caldéron de la Barca.

Patrizia Oppici is a professor of French Literature at the University of Macerata. Interested in the history of ideas, she has written numerous books on concepts linked to altruism and gifts in 18^th and 19^th century literature. She has also written articles on Balzac, Flaubert, Proust and French contemporary literature.

Susi Pietri is an associate professor of French Language and Literature at the University of Macerata. Her research interests focus on the theories and poetics of the 9^th and 10^th century novel from an interdisciplinary perspective (French literature, comparative literature, and literary anthropology). She has also written books and articles on Balzac, Flaubert, Gautier, James, Stevenson, and Wilde.