Tugçe Erten

Fashion and Literature: Fashion and Literature As Mechanisms of External Control and Self-control in the Elizabethan Era and the Victorian Era Tugçe Erten

This book studies how fashion and literature affect each other and how they affect our lives as means of expression. Fashion and literature are in constant interaction with each other and us, as both of them are important means of self-expression. While practising either fashion or literature, we are expected to follow some set of rules that regulate the ways in which we express ourselves. In addition to this external control imposed upon us, we also oblige ourselves to follow those rules while dressing or writing. Moreover, intentionally or unintentionally, we dress and write according to some rules ourselves have created in order to be accepted in the society. The Elizabethans and the Victorians did the same, however they were faced with stricter rules, and serious punishments in case they failed to comply.