Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0344934

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0344934

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A comparative historical study of English and French men's self-fashioning, with reference to gender, sexual and national identity, c1740-90. The project analyses the transformation of Anglo-French social attitudes towards aristocratic male dress c1740-90. In so doing, it offers a new explanation for the demise of court dress in Enlightenment Europe and the rise of that sober protestant and bourgeois style which now dominates the appearance of western male elites. It will produce the first comprehensive comparative study of two courtier figures, the French petit-maitre and the English macaroni, in order to advance the hypothesis that these interdependent national and masculine identities played a significant role in the reformulation of modern notions of gender, sexuality, health and consumerism.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 27-02-2003

End Date: 31-12-2007

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $55,771.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Art History And Appreciation | Consumption And Everyday Life | History: European | Art Theory and Criticism

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Other Keywords

Art History And Appreciation | Art Theory and Criticism | Consumption And Everyday Life | History: European | Understanding the Pasts of Other Societies

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